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The Big Abacus! - Right Before My Eyes! Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 1/4/2015
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Right before my very eyes, I thought that you were only faking it.
And right before my heart was taken in.
Baby what a big surprise. Right before my very eyes.

Yesterday it seemed to me my life was nothing more than wasting time.
But here today you slowly changed my mind
Baby what a big surprise. Right before my very eyes.
 

I thought of this song while I was at the optometrist getting a new prescription. Now, my optometrist is very good and very clever, but he has a strange way of writing up a prescription. When I saw the prescription, I considered making it a puzzle just the way it was. But then I thought, why make it just a plain puzzle when I could make it a "Big Abacus!" puzzle? So, when I got home from the eye doctor, I pulled out the Big Abacus! and went to work on the most elaborate Big Abacus! puzzle, yet.

To help you along, I'll write down what my optometrist wrote as far as each eye, but after that, the rest of his Rx is too much detail for my eyes to handle. I guess it has something to do with the amount of prism I need.

OD: -5.75 +2.25 x19

OS: -4.10 +1.50 x84


Which is better? One? Or Two? Or One? Check with certitude.
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[cache]Rlr yriry, fvta bayl

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)