# Re: Method Size - Best Practices

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-method-size-best-practices/94646>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 9, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-method-size-best-practices/94646 "2006-05-09T22:04:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-method-size-best-practices/94646/1 "2006-05-09T22:04:56Z")

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Well thank you for the insights - it sounds a little like the story  
told by Douglas Adams about somebody asking a question  
to a supercomputer, which replies, “I’ll think about it”, only  
to put out the response ‘42’, several million years later, so  
that a new computer, the Earth, has to be built to figure  
out what the original question might have been … 🙂

Best regards,

Axel