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TPL: Jiuzhuang Mystery Cache

Hidden : 1/26/2017
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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TPL: Taipei Public Library

 

Cache is NOT at the posted coordinates.
The posted coordinates is the location of Jiuzhuang branch.
Please bring your own pen.

 


 

Since Jiuzhuang branch's location is close to Academia Sinica, so the collection highlights is about "Popular Science".

舊莊分館因鄰近中央研究院,故以「科普」為館藏特色。

 

Popular science (also pop-science or popsci) is interpretation of science intended for a general audience. While science journalism focuses on recent scientific developments, popular science is more broad-ranging. It may be written by professional science journalists or by scientists themselves. It is presented in many forms, including books, film and television documentaries, magazine articles, and web pages.

科學普及,又稱大眾科學、流行科學或者普及科學,是指利用各種傳媒以淺顯的方式向普通大眾普及科學技術知識,倡導科學方法、傳播科學思想、弘揚科學精神的活動。相比於科學新聞集中於出版最新科研成果,讓科學作品的內容更為廣泛。科學作品多數由科學家以及傳媒從業員編撰,透過不同媒介展示,常見的如書本、紀錄片、雜誌文章和網頁。

 

Since the collection highlights of Juizhuang branch is "Popular Science", let's learn some tips of it! :)

既然舊莊分館的館藏特色為科普,就讓我們學習一些關於科普的小知識吧!

 


 

Question 1: Chemistry (化學)

 

What's the weight of CaCHe?

 

 (Since there're some different versions, so here is the hint for the version I used: 6 digit number with a 6 at the end.)

 


 

Question 2: Astronomy (天文學)

 

We all knew about leap year, which is a calendar year containing one additional day added to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year. But, do you know about leap second?

我們都知道閏年是比普通年分多出一段時間的年分,目的是為了彌補人為規定的紀年與地球公轉產生的差異。但你知道什麼是閏秒嗎?

 

A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in order to keep its time of day close to the mean solar time, or UT1. Without such a correction, time reckoned by Earth's rotation drifts away from atomic time because of irregularities in the Earth's rate of rotation. Since this system of correction was implemented in 1972.

閏秒是在協調世界時(UTC)中增加或減少一秒,使它與平太陽時貼近所做調整。要保持UTC與平太陽時的一致性,偶爾需要調整,也就是"跳個"1秒來做調整,就是所謂添加閏秒。閏秒時間現在是由國際地球自轉和參考座標系統服務(IERS)來確認,而在1988年1月1日之前是由國際時間局(BIH)承擔這項職責。

 

How many leap second have been inserted until January 31,  2017?

 


 

Question 3: Psychology (心理學)

 

Please watch this film to answer the question.  FILM

 

According to the film, which is not the dream work?
(1) Condensation
(2) Development 
(3) Symbolization
(4) Secondary Revision

 


 

Question 4: Linguistics (語言學)

 

An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use as its speakers die out or shift to speaking another language. Language loss occurs when the language has no more native speakers and becomes a "dead language". If eventually no one speaks the language at all, it becomes an "extinct language". Although languages have always become extinct throughout human history, they are currently disappearing at an accelerated rate by the processes of globalization and neocolonialism, and the economically powerful languages dominate other languages.

瀕危語言(endangered language)指的是使用人數越來越少的、行將滅絕的語言。一般而言,瀕危語言都是失去了國家形態的少數民族語言或區域語言。在當今世界,信息的全球化和不恰當的語言政策更是加速了優勢語言的興旺和弱勢語言的式微。此外,語言的瀕危還牽涉到語言使用者對自己母語的忠誠度等問題,有些族群在母語受到強勢語言威脅時會採取強烈的反抗以爭取權利,而有些族群則自願放棄將母語傳遞給下一代。

 

There are over 40 kinds of languages in Taiwan, and many aboriginal languages are endangered. In recent years, people speak Chinese as the main language, maybe there would have no one could speak Taiwanese (or called Hokkien) to each other in a few decades. At present, the traditional languages of Taiwan (Hokkien and Hakka) are used by millions of people. However, people who could speak fluent Hokkien or Hakka has been decreasing year by year.

臺灣的語言達四十多種,其中原住民的語言有多種面臨滅絕的危機。近年來年輕人皆以中文作為主要語言,可能在幾十年後再也沒有人能夠全用閩南語交談。目前臺灣的傳統語言(閩南語、客家語)都有數百萬人在使用,不過自然發展的臺灣閩南語南部腔已蛻變獨特腔調與環境因素而不同語詞,能說流利客家語的人數也逐年在降低中。

 

According to the website (http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/), how many languages in Taiwan are endangered?

 


 

Question 5: Mathematics (數學)

 

 

 

Please fill in the blanks with numbers 1 to 7 (numbers can not be reused), so that the sum of each line are the same.

What's the lowest possible sum of each line? 

 

請在空格中分別填入數字1~7 (數字不可重複使用),使其每行或每列的數字總和均等。

請問每列的最小和為多少?

 


 

 

Please input all the answers from Questions 1 through 5 as a string of numbers without any spaces or dots or parentheses into the Geochecker below to get the final coordinates

請將答案排列成一串數字(不要加任何空格或標點符號),並把數字輸入至Geochecker 來獲得最終座標 

 


You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

 

 

Please do NOT post any photos of final GZ or the hints or the answers in your log. 

 

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

orybj gur cynpr lbh pna fvg.

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)