Breif Intro
This cache is the second 3D printed cache in edmonton as far as I know there have been a LOT of emails back and forth as to what a 3d printer is and what it does so let me explain this cache container is made out of ABS plastic what a 3d printer is is a machine that has a nozzle on it that gets very very hot 230c to be exact the nozzles on this printer are very very small the best way to think of it is a hot glue gun a solid round material goes in through a big opening and comes out melted through a very small opening and cools this printer works the same way heating the plastic and squirting it out it has small motors the move the nozzle around a platform and slowly layer upon layer it builds a object :D to give you a Idea of the complexity of what this machine has to do this nozzle in order to print this cache moved a TOTAL distance of 3953.8 feet thats 1.205117 kilometers it took 3538.61 feet or 1.0785691 KM of plastic smaller then width of a human hair built layer upon layer to build this cache the cahce weights about 91 grams or approax 3 ounces the nozzle will lay 13.5453 feet of that fine fine plastic a minute and lastly it took over 636,446 LINES of code to make this object which is Truly amazing if you ask me this cache took about 5 hours to print
Cache Information
This cahce is fairly simple and I guess a bit of a field puzzle but yet a fairly to easy solve puzzle suited for ALL ages this cache goes like this when you have the cache container in hand you will see 2 Pink dots incase there not lined up Line them up now with them lining up and the dots at the bottom you will see 9 orange ticks each tick repersents a number with the cache in hand and the dots at the bottom tick 1 will be to the right of the dots rotate the top portion so the top dot lines up with the tick and gently pull up to prevent it from simply twisting off i added a security feature if the top wont rotate gently wiggle the cap down just a bit and continue to rotate to the next number and pull up again continue this process till the cache is open :)
the password for this cache is as EASY as Pi :)
A brief history of Pi
The number pi is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circles circumference to its Diameter. It has been represented by the Greek letter "π" since the mid-18th century, though it is also sometimes written as pi. π is an irrational number, which means that it cannot be expressed exactly as a ratio of two integers (such as 22/7 or other fractions that are commonly used to approximate π); consequently, its decimal representation never ends and never settles into a permanent repeating pattern.The digits appear to be randomly distributed, although no proof of this has yet been discovered. π is a transdental number – a number that is not the root of any nonzero polynomial having rational coefficients. The transcendence of π implies that it is impossible to solve the ancient challenge of squaring the circle with a compass and straight-edge.
For thousands of years, mathematicians have attempted to extend their understanding of π, sometimes by computing its value to a high degree of accuracy. Before the 15th century, mathematicians such as Archimedes and Liu Hui used geometrical techniques, based on polygons, to estimate the value of π. Starting around the 15th century, new algorithms based on infinite series revolutionized the computation of π, and were used by mathematicians including Madhava of Sangamagrama, Isaac Newton, Leonhard Euler, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Srinivasa Ramanujan.
In the 20th and 21st centuries, mathematicians and computer scientists discovered new approaches that – when combined with increasing computational power – extended the decimal representation of π to, as of late 2011, over 10 trillion (1013) digits.
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