+Elementry Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 guess or not i want to place it/own it do you let this happen or is it a secret? Link to comment
+Stunod Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 guess or not i want to place it/own it do you let this happen or is it a secret? Right after 999,999? Link to comment
+Cache O'Plenty Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 The "957,023" active caches posted on the front page are just that, "active" caches. It does not include archived caches. There have have been many more than 1 million caches placed. And the 957,023 number is dynamic in that new caches will up the number just as newly archived will "down" the number. Thus, no one can pinpoint any single cache as the "1 millioneth" active cache. Link to comment
+Elementry Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 The "957,023" active caches posted on the front page are just that, "active" caches. It does not include archived caches. There have have been many more than 1 million caches placed. And the 957,023 number is dynamic in that new caches will up the number just as newly archived will "down" the number. Thus, no one can pinpoint any single cache as the "1 millioneth" active cache. well i WISH there was a way.Come On Groundspeak get on this.we no you want to. Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 The 1 millionth published cache has passed long ago. Active caches come and go - the millionth one will be a shifting value. Link to comment
+Team Cotati Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 guess or not i want to place it/own it do you let this happen or is it a secret? Neither, it's open mic night at the comedy club. Link to comment
+Elementry Posted December 16, 2009 Author Share Posted December 16, 2009 guess or not i want to place it/own it do you let this happen or is it a secret? Neither, it's open mic night at the comedy club. Why can't they do it? Link to comment
+Whistlen Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 guess or not i want to place it/own it do you let this happen or is it a secret? Neither, it's open mic night at the comedy club. Why can't they do it? Because fish don't like ice cream! Link to comment
+Elementry Posted December 16, 2009 Author Share Posted December 16, 2009 guess or not i want to place it/own it do you let this happen or is it a secret? Neither, it's open mic night at the comedy club. Why can't they do it? Because fish don't like ice cream! I have not tried feeding ice cream to fish.But one million.I am going to write Oprah.. Link to comment
+rob3k Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Is there a way to tell the number of current active caches other than the number on the main page? Just wondering if the forums will know when the threshold has been passed within minutes. Link to comment
+Cairngorm Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 [slightly off topic, I know] If anyone here cared enough to do the math in both decimal and base-21 (or whatever the heck it is), it would be trivial to figure out what GC number represents the 1,000,000th placing. Or two of us could do it, and then argue ad hominem about our solutions for days on end. Link to comment
+Cairngorm Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 (edited) [slightly off topic, I know] If anyone here cared enough to do the math in both decimal and base-21 (or whatever the heck it is), it would be trivial to figure out what GC number represents the 1,000,000th placing. But luckily it's all been done already. And oh yes, I meant base 31. I knew that . Edited December 17, 2009 by Cairngorm Link to comment
+ArcherDragoon Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 guess or not i want to place it/own it do you let this happen or is it a secret? Neither, it's open mic night at the comedy club. Why can't they do it? Because...they are trying to figure out a way to predict when the next thread of this same topic will show up...(keeps getting more frequent as the "number" inches closer to a million) Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 [slightly off topic, I know] If anyone here cared enough to do the math in both decimal and base-21 (or whatever the heck it is), it would be trivial to figure out what GC number represents the 1,000,000th placing. Or two of us could do it, and then argue ad hominem about our solutions for days on end. Just use Fizzycalc http://www.fizzymagic.net/Geocaching/FizzyCalc/index.html Link to comment
+RIclimber Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 (edited) GCFF + GCFFF + GCFFFF + GCG000-GCZZZZ + GC10000-GCZZZZZ GC1GBC0 is #1,000,000 GC224N1 is #1,500,000 Edited December 17, 2009 by Downy288 Link to comment
+Cairngorm Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 (edited) GCFF + GCFFF + GCFFFF + GCG000-GCZZZZ + GC10000-GCZZZZZ GC1GBC0 is #1,000,000 GC224N1 is #1,500,000 Cannot believe I actually did this . I started with fizzymagic's statement that "the last 4-letter combination, GCZZZZ, will be cache # 512,400." My math confirmed that. So then the millionth cache would be the 487,600th entry in the new 7-digit system, which makes it GC0FTZQ. But when I tried to look at that cache, the system fed me the page for GCED33. I looked around a little more and discovered that the GC0xxxx series hasn't been used and "GC10000 is the 512401 geocache created on geocaching.com and it has taken just over 6.5 years (2429 days) to reach this point, with an average of about 210 geocaches created each day since the first geocache was placed back on May 3rd, 2000." So my latest guess is that the 1,000,000th hide might be GC1FTZQ, "Clifftop Cache" in Ontario. Edited December 17, 2009 by Cairngorm Link to comment
+Cairngorm Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 (edited) Just use Fizzycalc http://www.fizzymagic.net/Geocaching/FizzyCalc/index.html That's the right answer! A better url is http://www.fizzymagic.net/Geocaching/Info/CacheNumber.php and the solution seems to be what Downy288 said. Okay, gotta go get a life now. Or half a day of caching. Edited December 17, 2009 by Cairngorm Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 GCFF + GCFFF + GCFFFF + GCG000-GCZZZZ + GC10000-GCZZZZZ GC1GBC0 is #1,000,000 GC224N1 is #1,500,000 Cannot believe I actually did this . I started with fizzymagic's statement that "the last 4-letter combination, GCZZZZ, will be cache # 512,400." My math confirmed that. So then the millionth cache would be the 487,600th entry in the new 7-digit system, which makes it GC0FTZQ. But when I tried to look at that cache, the system fed me the page for GCED33. I looked around a little more and discovered that the GC0xxxx series hasn't been used and "GC10000 is the 512401 geocache created on geocaching.com and it has taken just over 6.5 years (2429 days) to reach this point, with an average of about 210 geocaches created each day since the first geocache was placed back on May 3rd, 2000." So my latest guess is that the 1,000,000th hide might be GC1FTZQ, "Clifftop Cache" in Ontario. Its GC1GBC0 Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?id=1000000 There are a number of ways to get to a cache page the URL above takes the listing number, and is for cache #1,000,000. It's a darn sight easier than some of the techniques folks have used in this thread. I rather fancy #1234567 www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?id=1234567 http:coord.info/GCCode www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCCode www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?id= www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid= Link to comment
stebu Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?id=1000000 There are a number of ways to get to a cache page the URL above takes the listing number, and is for cache #1,000,000. It's a darn sight easier than some of the techniques folks have used in this thread. Well, it's easy and it's WRONG! Off by about 411120! Just trust the Fizzycalc Link to comment
+Elementry Posted December 17, 2009 Author Share Posted December 17, 2009 www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?id=1000000 There are a number of ways to get to a cache page the URL above takes the listing number, and is for cache #1,000,000. It's a darn sight easier than some of the techniques folks have used in this thread. Well, it's easy and it's WRONG! Off by about 411120! Just trust the Fizzycalc Ilove this you guys are boggling my mind but enjoy the hunt i like the Fizzycalc Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 GC1GBC0 is #1,000,000 www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1GBC0 linky URL use GC1GBC0 www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?id=1000000 linky URL use #1000000 Link to comment
stebu Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 GC1GBC0 is #1,000,000 www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1GBC0 linky URL use GC1GBC0 www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?id=1000000 linky URL use #1000000 Well, I have to agree 1GBC0 in "base 31" equals 1411120, but that seems to be totally off-topic Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 GC1GBC0 is #1,000,000 www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1GBC0 linky URL use GC1GBC0 www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?id=1000000 linky URL use #1000000 Well, I have to agree 1GBC0 in "base 31" equals 1411120, but that seems to be totally off-topic More to the calculation than straight base 31. Link to comment
+rob3k Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?id=1000000 There are a number of ways to get to a cache page the URL above takes the listing number, and is for cache #1,000,000. It's a darn sight easier than some of the techniques folks have used in this thread. I rather fancy #1234567 www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?id=1234567 That is a neat trick, thanks for sharing it. Link to comment
+Team Cotati Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Is there a way to tell the number of current active caches other than the number on the main page? Just wondering if the forums will know when the threshold has been passed within minutes. Within micro-seconds would be my wager. Link to comment
+Ocean Lovers Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 I also have been watching the progress towards one million active caches. Sure, there are more than a million that have been placed, but it seems to me that the more important milestone is a million active caches, worldwide. Even though the number of active caches is fluid and may go up (as caches are published or enabled) or down (as caches are disabled or directly archived), the total net number never seems to go down. I trust that geocaching will announce the accomplishment when it happens. It would, however, not be possible to deduce which cache made the number exactly 1,000,000 unless geocaching keeps a real time count. If they don't, which I doubt, this means that anyone who puts out a cache on the day when one million is achieved can claim that their cache was number 1,000,000. I will certainly try to place one that day. The more the merrier! Link to comment
+LeGodFather Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 We're close.. front page states: "There are 998,838 active geocaches around the world" Link to comment
Keystone Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 I am closing this bumped thread because there are two active threads on the same subject over in the Geocaching Topics forum. Link to comment
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