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The Best Number ~ Sheldon Cooper Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 12/15/2015
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

A Tribute to The Big Bang Theory


The Big Bang Theory is one of my family’s and my favorite sitcoms of all times. I have always loved the following quote by Sheldon Cooper and when I realized I could put together coords that worked using this quote as a reference I got overly geekily excited! Should be easy to solve the coords, and the cache isn’t too tough a hide either! Gonna get a gold dollar if you are the FTF!!! May the force be with you as you live long as prosper!

 

 

The best number is 73. Why? 73 is the 21st prime number. Its mirror, 37, is the 12th and its mirror, 21, is the product of multiplying 7 and 3... and in binary 73 is a palindrome, 1001001, which backwards is 1001001.

At GZ look behind the first telephone pole on the right as you go east from the closest intersection

 

Final coords: N 45°__ __.__ __5  W 122°__ __.__ __ 9

Final coords are really, really close at the final location... look west just a touch to a really obvious spot for a geocache to hide! Decode the hint for a little help with both the coords and the cache!

Congrats to H2OWarrior for the FTF!!!

Ask and you shall receive...

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

01000011 01101111 01101111 01110010 01100100 01110011 00111010 00100000 01101101 01101001 01110010 01110010 01101111 01110010 00100000 01110010 01101111 01110010 01110010 01101001 01101101 00001101 00001010 00001101 00001010 01000011 01100001 01100011 01101000 01100101 00111010 00100000 01010011 01101111 01110101 01110100 01101000 00100000 01110011 01101001 01100100 01100101 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110100 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110000 01101000 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01110000 01101111 01101100 01100101

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)