An easy cache for mature engineers, all others may need Google.
Do you remember seeing your first computer, I do. During my
Senior year at Northeastern we had our only computer course. The
computer took up an entire room and utilized foot long vacuum
tubes. All Data was input on stacks of key punched "IBM" cards.
For that course I wrote my first program in Fortran. The program
consisted of hundreds of fortran statement, each on an key punched
IBM card. So the entire program was a stack of 3x8 inch punched
cards that was run on the schools computer overnight. Remind me to
tell you about a friend who dropped his stack of program cards on
the MTA tracks in February in Boston.
So how did we do calculations back then? Remember this is before
electronic hand calculators. By hand and with slide rules using
trigonmetric and logarithm tables. Remember the CRC Tables?
To find the coordinates to this cache you must use a slide rule.
Set the values and read under the hairline.The cache is at N41
MN.PQR W072 XX.YYZ where:
What is the value on the A scale when you set 5.5 on the D
scale. This is M.
When you set 3 on the C scale, what is the value on the B scale.
This is N.
When you multiply Pi times 283, what is the value on the K
scale. This is P.
When you cube 55, what is the value on the A scale. This is
Q.
When you set .5 on the L scale, what is the value on the A
scale. This is R.
When you set 8.2 on the A scale, what is the value on the K
scale. This is XX.
When you multiply 14 times 206, what is the value on the L
scale. This is YY
When you multiply 147 times Pi, what is the value on the K
scale. This is Z.
Note Answers are single or two digit numbers. Ignore decimal point.
Check out the interesting single grave on the left as you walk
to the cache. John Nolion died of small pox at age 26 on March 20,
1777.
Placed near bike trail so please replace cache carefully.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.