Down by The River Mystery Cache
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This is a puzzle cache, do not go to the listed coordinates, they are in the middle of the river a little over 500 ft off. The coordinates are listed below. You must decode the coordinates to find the cache site. If you use an online translator you ruin the purpose. Binary may be scary but it is easy :)
Anything in parentheses is a given number. AKA (#)=#
Anything in brackets is an ANSI character. AKA {#}=LETTER
Cache Site = {01001110}_00110000_00011100(.0)00110001_{01010111}_01110010_00011110(.50)00000001
Binary Is 1's and 0's, On and Off, True and False. It is the most basic of all languages. All computers use binary and all electronic data is binary. Binary is simple to decode once you learn the pattern. You must also know that all Keyboard Characters have a number value called ANSI.
Binary Reads from Right to Left. Starting with the first digit equal to 1 you multiply each number by 2. Here is an example
1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0
128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1
If the binary digit is 1 that means its "On" and we keep the corresponding number, If its 0 it is "Off" and we ditch it. All the number that you keep you then add. An easier way to think of it is to times the binary digit by the corresponding number and add them.
128*1 + 64*0 + 32*1 + 16*0 + 8*1 + 4*1 + 2*1 + 1*0 = 174
Therefore 10101110 = 174.
If you want to get text from binary you convert the result to a letter using its ANSI value.
01000001
128*0 + 64*1 + 32*0 + 16*0 + 8*0 + 4*0 + 2*0 + 1*1 = 65
65 = "A"
01000001 = "A"
Google ANSI Chart to get the numerical values of letters :)
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.
Congrats to cte40363 for FTF
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