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Don't PANIC Mystery Cache

Hidden : 12/27/2024
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


Douglas Adams said "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is".

How big is a Googolplex : A typical book can be printed with 106 zeros (around 400 pages with 50 lines per page and 50 zeros per line). Therefore, it requires 1094 such books to print all the zeros of a googolplex (that is, printing a googol zeros).  If each book had a mass of 100 grams, all of them would have a total mass of 1093 kilograms. In comparison, Earth's mass is 5.97 × 1024 kilograms, the mass of the Milky Way galaxy is estimated at 1.8 × 1042 kilograms, and the total mass of all the stars in the observable universe is estimated at 2 × 1052 kg.

To put this in perspective, the mass of all such books required to write out a googolplex would be vastly greater than the mass of the observable universe by a factor of roughly 5 × 1040.

Well here is a mind bogglingly big number puzzle for you to solve.

The container is also mind boggling big and comfortable for travel bugs of most reasonable sizes.
 

How to solve
1) Don't panic..  You're looking for a number that would 25.49 miles tall if each digit was 1mm tall.
2) This number isn't divisible by any other numbers
3) Once you have the number you need to find the last 10 digits of it -  Call then 1-10 where 1 is the last digit, 2 is the second last digit etc.
4) [a] or [a-b] is the "a"th number from the end and then remove b from the result.
 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Pnpur: Gur nern arneol vf orvat qrirybcrq (ohg guvf vf whfg bhgfvqr bs gung nern). Lbh'yy arrq gb qb n ybatre jnyx gb trg gb gur pnpur abj. Cyrnfr znxr fher ab bar vf jbexvat arneol jura svaqvat guvf pnpur.

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)