10 pieces of Π Mystery Cache

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dgauss: Missing again? Some critter might be reclaiming the space. Time to release this nice area anyway.

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Hidden : 3/14/2012
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

A Π-day cache near Circle Lake.

The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates. However, it can be obtained from

N 44° 81.356 W 093° 94.027

by replacing 9 by its ordinal 1, 8 by its ordinal 2, and so on, and, finally, 0 by 0. As a check note that the last five digits of the latitude and of the longitude taken together will still include all the digits 01..9.

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1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273 7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436 7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094 3305727036 5759591953 0921861173 8193261179 3105118548 0744623799 6274956735 1885752724 8912279381 8301194912 9833673362 4406566430 8602139494 6395224737 1907021798 6094370277 0539217176 2931767523 8467481846 7669405132 0005681271 4526356082 7785771342 7577896091 7363717872 1468440901 2249534301 4654958537 1050792279 6892589235 4201995611 2129021960 8640344181 5981362977 4771309960 5187072113 4999999 and so on.

You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

Added 3/16/2012

Added 4/1/12
Pi is known to 10 trillion places. One can obtain it to at least 1,000,000 places on the web. The record for reciting its digits is to about 100,000 places. So what's significant to reciting it to only 767 places as above? It's based on a joke by the famous physicist, Richard Feynman. Here are a couple of useful links:

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