There is absolutely nothing wrong with the coordinates above. I'm sure they would take you to a very nice location where you could enjoy nature. However, if you want to find this cache, I don't recommend going there; I recommend solving the puzzle in the cache description below instead.
That being said, the cache is within 3.14159265359... km of the posted coordinates.
Happy Pi Day!
March 14th (3/14) is celebrated as Pi Day (3.14) by math enthusiasts around the world. Pi is the mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Mathematically, it’s transcendental and irrational. Its decimal places go on infinitely.
To celebrate the holiday, I have been serving up a Pi Day puzzle every year since 2014; here are the caches in the series thus far:
2014 - GC4ZJ6K
2015 - GC5N33X
2016 - GC6CCXC
2017 - GC71EYQ
2018 - GC7KADF
2019 - GC82DRP
2020 - GC8KCRK
2021 - GC97CB8
2022 - GC9PQ0A
2023 - GCA4BKB
2024 - GCAJMK3
2025 - GCB1HAA
2026 - GCBKH2P
For 2014, I presented a cache blatently stolen based on one hidden by behmSquad in Illinois, to which full credit for the idea is given.
When I think about Pi, Carl Sagan’s book (& subsequent movie starring Jodie Foster) "Contact" is brought to mind. In the plot of the book, a message is discovered buried deep, deep within the decimal places of Pi. This message is interpreted as some sort of artist’s signature by the universe’s creator.
I thought this to be a pretty cool plot line and it made me wonder if there really is something buried within Pi. So I decided to take a look, and you won’t believe it, but I found the coordinates to this cache buried in Pi. Now, I only looked within the first one million decimal places, so it shouldn’t be hard for you to find them as well. North and west coordinates should be found separately but used together to determine the CLOSEST possible coordinates in Pi to the published coordinates. For example, if the published coordinates were found in Pi, they would appear like 3550967 and 8359701 (leading zero for W coords not used).
At certain times of the day, the area around the cache may experience high traffic. So, use stealth in your search. Just like Pi and several of my hides, you may find this one to be completely irrational.
Enjoy, happy hunting, and good luck spilling your ink. Cache ya later!
Ol'Fogie
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