NOTE: Cache is not located at the posted Coordinates
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During the pandemic there has been a great deal of time to sit and reflect on importants things. One reflection has been about how essential math is.
Most of us use math every day. We may be adding up the cost of items placed in our grocery cart to control what we will pay at checkout. We may estimate how long it will take to go get a cache and return,so we will be back in time for another important event. How many yards of asphalt are needed to pave a section of road? Given the number of people in various age groups and the number of vaccine shots that can be given per day, how many days will it take to vaccinate each group? Develop a budget to see if there is enough income to support it. Prepare a savings for retirement plan to see if there will be enough to support a comfortable lifestyle. Examples could go on and on.
Then there are some of the more challenging uses of math. GCXB84, Secondhand Surveys, is one of my favorite examples of a math problem. Geometry and trigonometry are used to determine bearings and lengths of the boundaries of a property survey. The end objective is to calculate the area bounded by the survey. When I went to college, few tools were available. A slide rule would not give enough significate figures to get an accurate answer. Logarithms were the tool to use. I do not know if folks use logarithms today. Technology now offers a $20 handheld calculator that can quickly do the job. I really enjoyed this math problem.
Laying out roads is interesting. Finding the right curve to join two tangents so that it is not too sharp for the speed of the auto is important. The fun part is then calculating spirals to join the tangents to a curve, so your auto gradually and smoothly enters and leaves the curve.
A local area puzzle relates to properties of a circle. The mathematical constant π goes on and on without repeating. The crop farmers in Eastern Oregon can calculate the area and circumference of their irrigated crop circles to calculate how much nutrients need to be applied to help their crops grow.
Permission was granted from rentspdx to use the idea they described in "Numbers of Interest".
So, let us get to the number sequences that you need so you get to the coordinates you require. The internet will be helpful.
The solution to this unknown cache explores the mysteries of Pi. A quote from a popular TV series will set the stage.
Harold Finch: [explaining the value of pi to a math class] "Pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, and this is just the beginning; it keeps on going, forever, without ever repeating. Which means that contained within this string of decimals, is every single other number. Your birthdate, combination to your locker, your social security number, it's all in there, somewhere."
And so are the coordinates you seek. Just follow along with these number sequences. It will be helpful to use the Internet.
8947505690
6267320770