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That reference would fit the zphd label. But it's _very unlikely_ that Zaphod Beeblebrox himself shows his head(s) here.

Would you go so far as to say the improbability is infinite?

You'd need a very hot cup of tea to calculate just how infinitely improbable.

Or a bistro waiter...

in form of a cow, offering herself as a menu

And "Thumb" mode. A solid set of HHGTTG references in this.

Just in case anyone doesn’t know, Thumb* is a subset of the ARM microarchitecture designed to use 16 bit instructions.

A very pleasing coincidence!

* https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0210/c/Introducti...

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