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A spaceship has a rest length of 500 meters and is traveling towards Earth at 90% of the speed of light. An astronaut on the ship measures that the length has shrunk to 250 meters. Calculate the time dilation factor experienced by the astronaut on the ship according to the Lorentz transformation.
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Deep Thought is thinking for 7.5 million years.

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The answer is 42.

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