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See also “The last answer” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Answer

Full text: https://highexistence.com/the-last-answer-short-story/

These 2 are my favorite Asimov stories.

Thanks. I had read The Last Question already, but am among today's 10_000 for this story.

I have now read it. Interesting. The main theme is not entirely new to me; without spoiling anything, I hope I can say that the long-form, not yet finished web comic Gunnerkrigg Court[0] touches on a very similar idea as one of its main themes.

[0] https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1

he wrote this long time ago...

Yes, obviously if there was any direct influence, it was from Asimov to the web comic author, not the other way round.

Nice xkcd reference.

For completeness, the Xkcd "Isaac in grade school" comic: https://xkcd.com/1448/#isaac

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