Textology #2: Following Directions Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 3/16/2010
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Sharpen your pencil. Show all work.

Start with two
Skip the line below
Add the inverse of Avogadro’s constant
Multiply by the factorial of six
Compute the square root of pi
Multiply the two numbers
Divide by the golden ratio
Remove the fractional part of the current number
Double
Subtract the (whole) longitude of (Spain) Cadiz
Triple
Multiply by half of eleven
Add the birth year of Leonardo da Vinci
Multiply by the number of fins on a dolphin
Halve
Add five and multiply by seven
Divide by the factorial of zero
Multiply by the birth year of Michaelangelo
Skip the line below
Divide by the gravitational constant
Divide by nine raised to the power of two
Subtract the weight of water in 1,179,330 pounds of snow
Subtract sixty cubed from your current result
Round down (no decimal place)
Add seventeen
Add two
Good job (keep that result), next one
This time start with three
Multiply by the (original) number of Santa’s reindeer
Now add Rudolph
Repeat (only the add Rudolph part)
Raise to the power of five
Take the natural logarithm then divide by three
Multiply by the sixth prime number
Divide by 13 and multiply by two to the tenth
Take the square root
Divide by one half times two
Skip the line below
Divide by the Faraday constant
Multiply by the (whole) latitude of Seattle
Multiply by the number of pounds in a (short) ton
Divide by pi
Divide by two-thirds of eighteen
Round to one decimal place
Subtract point five
Halve that number
Multiply by one-tenth
Repeat
Multiply by the birth year of Albert Einstein
Round down (no decimal place)
Locate the Israeli city of Tel Aviv
Subtract its (whole) latitude from its (whole) longitude
Multiply the working numbers
Add 1,245,608 to that number
Thank you
That should do
You have to go find the cache yourself

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Results of survey to date (2 November 2010, 20 responses)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr uvag #1: Zvf-qverpgvba vf n qverpgvba, evtug? Chmmyr uvag #2 - UVCF ... VCR Chmmyr uvag #3: Erirefr vf nyfb n qverpgvba. Uvqr: Nobhg (cv(), 0) srrg bss gur tebhaq

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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