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tanyamp

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Here is another cache that stumps me, but may not be about math???

Posted Coords:  N 30° 15.000' / W 97° 48.000'

This cache is not at the posted coordinates, but lies within 2 miles of them. Deducing the correct coordinates will require some mathematical insights.

Finding this cache will take you from 6,277,851th place to 4,494,680th place. But don't let that go to your head. This cache will not be found with ease, but only by those who approach it with appropriate piety.

Total hiking distance for this cache varies from 1 to 2 miles, depending on your entry point to the final cache site.

Satellite coverage should be very good at both the first waypoint and the final cache location. The cache is a large ammo box, with some appropriate goodies. First Finder should tear off the first page of the log book and take it with her.

Hint:

For solving this cache, a B.S. in google beats a Ph.D. in math.

Waypoint 1: opposite side over hypotenuse

Final cache: Rotten indefinite integral(1/x). Follow the barbed wire.

thanks,
Tanya

Last edited by tanyamp (2006-07-28 01:31:44)

Zhylliolom

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Re: Here is another cache that stumps me, but may not be about math???

Waypoint 1: Sine. Don't know what you'll do with that though.

Final cache: ∫dx/x = ln x + c, I guess they're talking about a rotten log here. Who knows, maybe the c comes into play too.

Should I be solving more than these two things? That Google hint makes me feel like I'm wasting my Ph.D here.

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Ricky

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Re: Here is another cache that stumps me, but may not be about math???

opposite side over hypotenuse

Sin?  Along with their awkward use of piety, I think it has something to do with a church.

Final cache: Rotten indefinite integral(1/x).

It's in a rotten, but natural log.

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"In the real world, this would be a problem.  But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist.  So we'll go ahead and do that now..."

Zhylliolom

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Re: Here is another cache that stumps me, but may not be about math???

I was thinking about the piety too, Ricky. Good work.

Ricky

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Re: Here is another cache that stumps me, but may not be about math???

Hmm, Zhylliolom is right, I think the "plus C" is important.  Could it be by or in a body of water?

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Ricky

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Re: Here is another cache that stumps me, but may not be about math???

At first, I thought they used it just because it had "pie" or rather, "pi" in it.

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"In the real world, this would be a problem.  But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist.  So we'll go ahead and do that now..."

Zhylliolom

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Re: Here is another cache that stumps me, but may not be about math???

Yeah, maybe it's just me but I feel like they emphasized the fact that it was an indefinite integral. They could have just said "rotten integral" and gotten the same log answer.

Edit: Haha, I was thinking of pi too at first. Man, I love math.

Last edited by Zhylliolom (2006-07-28 01:52:55)

tanyamp

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Re: Here is another cache that stumps me, but may not be about math???

rotten log is good and sine could be sign.  like in a rotten log near a sign.

a play on words which is why they givehte hint about not needing to be a math genius

mmm,
thanks,
tanya

tanyamp

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Re: Here is another cache that stumps me, but may not be about math???

aaahhhh, near a chuch maybe?

tanya

Definitions of piety on the Web:

righteousness by virtue of being pious
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Piety is a desire and willingness to perform religious duties. It is a traditional virtue because religion is the only known way to win the favor or forgiveness of deities, that is, to "propitiate" them.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piety

(see pelican)
www.burkes-peerage.net/sites/common/sitepages/heraldry_p.asp

Just as faith was an important medieval virtue of particular importance to knights, piety kept that faith strongly held.
www.chronique.com/Library/Glossaries/glossary-KCT/gloss_p.htm

(Pietaet) is "the subjection toward the holders of authority and toward one another" (SC, House Community).
www.ne.jp/asahi/moriyuki/abukuma/outline/outline_basic_concept.html

Reverence toward God or the gods; religious devoutness
www.innvista.com/culture/religion/diction.htm

tanyamp

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Re: Here is another cache that stumps me, but may not be about math???

About the C
we live in austin tx, so there are no seas here, but some water.
tanya