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Bully #11 - How.IWishICouldCalculatePi Mystery Cache

Hidden : 7/28/2020
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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#11 / 91

The Bull has become an icon of Birmingham. There's been a bull ring in the city centre since the Middle Ages, but most recently as a shopping centre and statue. The flag of Birmingham has a bull's head on it, in reference to this history. This series of puzzle caches showcases the city's iconic bull.

The cache is not at the posted co-ordinates.

Part of the Birmingham Bully series

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The digits of π have no apparent pattern and have passed tests for statistical randomness, including tests for normality; a number of infinite length is called normal when all possible sequences of digits (of any given length) appear equally often. The conjecture that π is normal has not been proven or disproven. Any random sequence of digits contains arbitrarily long subsequences that appear non-random, by the infinite monkey theorem. Thus, because the sequence of π's digits passes statistical tests for randomness, it contains some sequences of digits that may appear non-random.

The title of the cache refers to a mnemonic to remember the first digits of pi.

The final co-ordinates can be found at:

North: 37464th-37470th decimal place of pi
West: 139423rd-139430th decimal place of pi

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

ovfba ba onpx bs gerr

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)

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