There is absolutely nothing wrong with the coordinates above. In fact, they are quite intentionally and precisely placed in the middle of the interstate. However, if you want to find this cache, I don't recommend going there; I suggest solving the puzzle in the cache description below instead.
That being said, the cache is within 3.14159265359... km of the posted coordinates.
Happy Pi Day!
March 14. The date when it's most cool to be a geek. The date when irrationality is a most respected quality. The date when friends gather together for no other reason but to celebrate their most favorite transcendental number and Albert Einstein's birthday.
The day (3/14) is known as Pi Day (3.14) by math enthusiasts around the world and is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant p (pi), the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Pi is transcendental and irrational and its decimal places go on infinitely. Pi Day was founded in 1988 by Larry Shaw, an employee of the San Francisco science museum, the Exploratorium.
Larry Shaw & the first Pi Day celebration
To celebrate the holiday, I have been serving up a Pi Day puzzle every year since 2014; here are the caches in the series so far:
2014 - GC4ZJ6K
2015 - GC5N33X
2016 - GC6CCXC
2017 - GC71EYQ
2018 - GC7KADF
2019 - GC82DRP
2020 - GC8KCRK
2021 - GC97CB8
2022 - GC9PQ0A
2023 - GCA4BKB
2024 - GCAJMK3
2025 - GCB1HAA
2026 - GCBKH2P
2025's offering is called a pie sudoku, or circle sudoku, or spider sudoku, or rainbow sudoku, and is also known as ensaimada. In this type of puzzle, the regular square-shaped grid is replaced with a circular grid.
(click here for printable version)
The rules are to fill in this sliced pie so that the numbers 1 through 12 appear:
- exactly once in each double-wedge slice of the same color,
- exactly once in each pair of opposite wedge slices, and
- exactly once in each ring around the center of the pie.
Solve for: A-F
N 35° 56.ABC W 84° 00.DEF
You can validate your puzzle solution with
certitude.
Enjoy, happy hunting, and good luck spilling your ink. Cache ya later!
Ol'Fogie
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