Even casual viewers of the Road Runner cartoons will know that Wile E. Coyote regularly orders his supplies from Acme Corporation. His complicated schemes against the Road Runner have employed a wide variety of Acme supplies, everything from dynamite and rocket-powered roller skates, to triple-strength battleship steel armor plate, and jet-propelled skis. It’s all documented, episode by episode, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wile_E._Coyote_and_The_Road_Runner
The cache is at N45° 10.ABC W075° 49.DEF, but to work out the values for A through F, you’ll need to (a) first answer some questions about Acme, (b) use those answers to obtain the correct single digit values for G through L, and then (c) do some simple math. By way of a check to help keep you from wandering around looking in the wrong spot, the digital root of the sum (A + B + C + D + E + F) is 4.
1) The word acme comes from the Greek. Let G be the digit associated with the expression that best represents the definition of the word acme.
a. Dermatitis (0)
b. Generic (2)
c. Fictional (4)
d. Zenith (5)
2) Suppose that Wile E. wanted to use an Acme motorcycle in one of his schemes to catch hot-rodicus supersonicus. Let H be the digital root of the continent from which it would have been sourced.
3) Suppose that Eatius Slobbius wanted to visit the Canadian village of Acme. Let I be the number of characters in the name of the province he’d have to go to.
4) Since one never sees a bricks and mortar Acme store in the cartoons, one speculates that Carnivorous Vulgaris buys his Acme products mail order, using his credit card. In placing those orders, he’d need to supply the security code from the back of that card. Let J be the number of digits he’d probably need to enter.
5) Based on the repeated shortcomings of his schemes, it seems likely that Appetitius Giganticus doesn’t use a great deal of mathematics in his planning. But should he wish to remedy this lacuna, this, he might benefit from the efforts of Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME), a British organization established by the Royal Society and the Joint Mathematical Council. Let K be the digital root of the year in which that organization was founded.
6) Over the course of its history, the U.S. Navy has commissioned multiple ships named Acme. Let L be the digital root of the number of digits in the type of ships in that class (single word). To make it a touch easier for you, that single word class is also the name of a reasonably popular, time-consuming, computer game involving outcomes with which Eatius Birdius is all too familiar.
And now, from the values of G through L that you’ve compiled, calculate the necessary digits A through F from the following formulae.
A=G+J
B =H+L-J
C=H+J
D=H+J-L
E =G+J-L
F=I+L-K
Now, get out there and find that cache. And (please) use a great deal more caution and common sense than we typically see from Hungrii Flea-baggius.