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Pi Day Mystery Cache

Hidden : 3/2/2010
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:



CAUGHT IN THE ACT!!!

Findingbill morphs into Pi-Man

CACHE IS NOT AT THE POSTED COORDINATES



On the ground, slightly behind.... no bush-whacking should be necessary!

Congratulations to dgreno for the FTF

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What could be more mysterious or puzzling than pi? The idea of this number is simple: divide the circumference of a circle by its diameter. Seems simple but it really gets crazy!!!

When I first thought of having a 'Pi Day' cache, I knew that it would have to entail something somewhat irrational-- I considered taking the first 5000 places of pi and implanting the cache values into the sequence here and there and so the prospective finder would have to compare pi place by place (5000 places!) with the values given in the description to find the necessary 6 extra values. The more I though of this the more I realized that this was more than crazy so I devised a slightly less devilish way to hide the numbers that you need to find this piece of pi!


p = 3.

141592653589793238462643383279502

884197169399375105820974944592307

816406286208998628034825342117067

982148086513282306647093844609550

5822317253594081284811174502841027

019385211055596446229489549303819

644288109756659334461284756482337

867831652712019091456485669234603

486104543266482133936072602491412

737245870066063155881748815209209

628292540917153643678925903600113

3053054882046652138414695194151160

943305727036575959195309218611738

1932611793105118548074462379962749

5673518857527248912279381830119491

Look carefully! The cache is located at:

N38° 27.??? W122° 46.???
Checksum for the six mystery digits[added to a single digit] is 6.


For even more decimalplaces for pi, see:

http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/math/pi/picalcs.htm

http://gc3.net84.net/pi.htm

Thanks to 007BIGD and DukeofURL for the 'Pi' patch


findingbill pathtags for the FTF and STF!!

And an unactivated Travel Ingot for the FTF.

Placed on Private Property with permission. The larger organization that this group belongs to uses Pi as a part of their logo.


Additional Hints (Decrypt)

jung fcbeg vf gur rcrr hfrq va?

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)