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By The Numbers Mystery Cache

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GeoGeeBee: Whew! This is the second time this cache has been vandalized by the neighborhood kids, so I don't see much point in replacing it yet again.

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Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


It's back, with a new container and some new trade items. The coordinates take you to a soccer field in Durham, but from there you have to do a little calculatin’ before you go prancing into the woods. It’s an easy find once you play by the numbers! There are not many fallen logs in the area, so look for a cover-up job!

(1.) Take the numbers of points awarded to the server of an ace at the beginning of a tennis game and ADD it to the number of days in a week according to the Gregorian calendar.
(2.) ADD the result from above to the number mentioned in the opening line of the Gettysburg Address: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” (Seems appropriate lately!)
(3.) SUBTRACT from that result the number of sides to an isosceles triangle.
(4.) MULTIPLY that result by the number of dice thrown on one roll at the Craps table.
(5.) Take that result and ADD 638.
(6.) The result is your new 3 right-most digits of the latitude given as your original starting point. (i.e., N 35 54.xxx)

(7.) Now start over. Back to zero. How many males play on a tennis court at one time during a mixed doubles game?
(8.) To that answer, MULTIPLY by the number of books in a trilogy.
(9.) Now MULTIPLY that result by the number of watts in a kilowatt.
(10.) DIVIDE that result by the number of minutes in one tenth of an hour.
(11.) Now SUBTRACT two gross from it .
(12.) Finally SUBTRACT 287 from that. The result is the new 3 right-most digits in the longitude given as your original starting point(i.e., W -78 55.xxx).

USING THE NEW COORDINATES, NOW GO FOR IT!! It’s as simple as a walk in the park!

One other thing. There are houses pretty close to the cache, so try not to be too obvious when you find it, and be sure to cover up so that neighborhood kids won't accidentally see it and take it, which is what happened at the previous site in this park! Thanks for visiting and leaving your comments in the log book and on the Geocaching.com website. Have fun!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)