+ReynoldsGang Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 (edited) How would you convert the following numbers to reveal partial coordinates of a cache. I believe it has to do with base 2 binary numbers. 5828067613945062770583094251764092918274730384072612387169 2042505279136815480938617470683194296260547142530294307859 Edited February 27, 2005 by ReynoldsGang Quote Link to comment
+Sputnik 57 Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 It is generally considered bad form to ask for help on a specific puzzle cache in the forums. If you want help with that cache, I suggest that you e-mail the owner, who can choose to give you help if desired. You may post a more generic question without referring to the specific cache. There are lots of helpful folks here who are happy to share their knowledge, but not spoil a specific puzzle. Quote Link to comment
+The Leprechauns Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 A search on the word "binary" turns up this recent thread. I read it 10 times and still didn't understand it. Or was that twice? Quote Link to comment
+Joe Smith Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 Talk to someone going to school for elementary education. They teach you how to work with numbers in binary up to base twelve. That being said I'm still confused, and I got an A on that test. Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 Oww...numbers....head....hurts... i prefer binary chemicals oooooh - shiny! Quote Link to comment
+Lil Elephants Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 Well... if those were truly binary numbers I would use the super elite tool that every windows computer comes with. Start -> Run -> calc The scientific view allows you to enter in the numbers in binary and convert them to decimal or even hexadecimal notation. But since the numbers you provided aren't binary, this tidbit is of absolutly no value to you. Quote Link to comment
+sTeamTraen Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 Yep, they look like more-or-less randomly-distributed decimal digits to me... Quote Link to comment
+ReynoldsGang Posted February 28, 2005 Author Share Posted February 28, 2005 I was told by the owner that this puzzle has to do with base 2 binary numbers. I know these numbers are not binary but there must be a way to convert them to get the coords of the cache out of them. Any help would be appreciated. 5828067613945062770583094251764092918274730384072612387169 2042505279136815480938617470683194296260547142530294307859 Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 The best help was the advice given in the first reply. Shoot an email to the owner and beg for more info. Quote Link to comment
+sTeamTraen Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Well, you can convert the decimal numbers to binary (see here for the software), which will give you 111011011010111111011101011100100101001101001101010110100111010101100110010111111100100101111111100011110011010100001100000111111001011100001000110110000011101000110100011100100001100101100001 and 10100110100110011000000000001111011111010111000000010110010011100010011011000001100010100101110110101111011001001110000000011101100000011011000110101001101100101100100010000110101110000010011 After that, your guess is as good as mine. Quote Link to comment
+sacherjj Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 I would suspect that an OR, AND, or XOR operation on the two binary numbers might give some interesting results. Or possibly convert the binary to ASCII. Quote Link to comment
+AtoZ Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 How would you convert the following numbers to reveal partial coordinates of a cache. I believe it has to do with base 2 binary numbers. 5828067613945062770583094251764092918274730384072612387169 2042505279136815480938617470683194296260547142530294307859 Well to start that is not binary, nor even octal maybe hex but not likely. Like stated contact the owner and see if he will help you. If is is not a FTF then he maybe helpful. That is how I ususlly do it if it is for a FTF then NO help after that depends upon my mood. cheers Quote Link to comment
+ReynoldsGang Posted February 28, 2005 Author Share Posted February 28, 2005 (edited) When you convert the binary numbers to ASCII you get the original numbers, so this is no help. I'm about to give up on this puzzle as it is to complicated for me to break. Thanks for everyones help on this and if there is anyone out there who has the answer to this then please let me know. Here is a link to the puzzle if you would like to look at it, http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...13-2dfdb5efb4be I have contacted the owner and he will not give me any additional hints, says I'm on my own!! But I know with this forum maybe we as a group can figure it out!!! Edited February 28, 2005 by ReynoldsGang Quote Link to comment
+ibycus Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 When you convert the binary numbers to ASCII you get the original numbers, so this is no help. Ummmm, no you don't. 01000001 converts to a letter A in ASCII. Quote Link to comment
Mushtang Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 I have contacted the owner and he will not give me any additional hints, says I'm on my own!! But I know with this forum maybe we as a group can figure it out!!! Asking for help on code caches in the forums is bad form. Go back and re-read the first reply to your original post. There are actually two hints on the cache page itself. Asking the forum readers to help you solve a code cache is pretty weak. Quote Link to comment
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