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Comment by tspiteri | Hacker News Reader

How about "Forty-two"?

Just page @dang because this is a filtering thing -

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

     If the title begins with a number or number + 
     gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop 
     it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," 
     and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number 
     is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

Please don't use code formatting for quotes. It makes the text unreadable on mobile.

Please don't criticize others for using features of the website you are visiting. If you bring a keyhole to view a landscape you won't get the full experience either.

Rendering pages is a matter that should be solved by the client.

It seems to be readable on iOS Safari. Scrolling sideways works fine. Worse than a regular quote, but not actually that bad. It is a client issue if it’s more broken than that.

Same on Android Firefox, although it is a bit annoying to have to scroll back and forth to read multi-line quotes formatted like this.

Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)

I don't see what the issue is with reminding people to be considerate of those who are browsing on mobile. Unfortunately, the latter group is also usually the ones with the least ability to actual solve their rendering problems.

It's very much the website's fault that it uses an awkwardly scrolling span that's much smaller than the viewport.

Interesting, I didn't even think of changing to "Forty-two".

You thought of using an obscure Unicode character before you thought of spelling it out? Well the good news is that you really do belong here on Hacker News :-)

I seemed to be focusing on replacing 42 with a visual equivalence, I even started with ４２ then felt it looked quite ugly.

Or "The Number 42..."

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