March 14th is recognised as Pi day throughout the world. The actual value of Pi has been calculated to millions of decimal places but for the sake of our little puzzle (and the date) we will take Pi to be 3.14
As many of you might know, we live in Axminster and when we are looking for new carpet there is an obvious warehouse to visit in town. There were hundreds of carpets on show and many were wrapped round and round long metal poles. The one that caught my eye was on a rod of 4" diameter and with the carpet on, it had a diameter of 2ft. There was 28 yards of it wrapped round and round. We went home to think about it and as we were talking about it I realised that I hadnt felt how thick the carpet was. However, as my wife pointed out, we had enough information to work that out. I did. Can you?
Lets say that the carpet was (0.abc) inches thick to three decimal places and that there were (de) complete rounds of the carpet on the pole. Using that information you could also find the location of this Pi day cache
It can be found at N 50 45.(b+e)(b)(d) W002 56.(a+b)(b+c)(a-e) There is parking at the headline coordinates but great care is then necessary when crossing the busy road.
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