rambudo: The end has come for the Temple Series ten years after it was published.
Thanks to the 160 cachers that found this piece of the Temple. I have enjoyed reading all of your logs.
This puzzle required identifying the 12 vigesimal numbers on the 2 pictures and converting them into Arabic Decimal Numerals. When the puzzle was first published, no information about where to find a conversion table. I inadvertently made the puzzle more difficult by inverting the colors of the image to match the theme of the page I was going for. As a result, image searches would not find the table. I quickly added a link to the page shortly after the FTF. I later added the table directly to the cache page through a picture when the other site no longer existed.
The numbers when converted to Arabic Numerals came out as 1,9,12,4,13,17 & 3,16,5,15,1,11. However, these are based on Mayan numbers. They used a vigesimal (Base 20) number system. To use them, you need to convert them to Decimal. If you wanted to drop them into a conversion tool, you need to adjust them to 19C4DH & 3G5F1B so that each digit is represented by a single symbol.
Those wanting to go the hard way, could also do the math by hand. the equation comes out to:
digit * Base ^ digit count + next digit * base ^ next digit count...; where digit count starts with 0.
17*20^0 + 13*20^1 + 4*20^2 + 12*20^3 + 9*20^4 + 1*20^5 = 4737877
11*20^0 + 1*20^1 + 15*20^2 + 5*20^3 + 16*20^4 + 3*20^5 = 12206031