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The Big Roundup Mystery Cache

Hidden : 10/6/2016
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is not at the posted coordinates.



Somewhere on the Internet is a web page containing over 206,000 digits. This string of digits represents a total sum, and that number is the solution to a puzzle that was created in the third century BC. This puzzle was written in the form of a 44-line poem and sent in a letter to Eratosthenes; it was likely meant to be a challenge to the mathematicians of Alexandria. This puzzle remained unsolved for many years with only an approximation being calculated in 1880. However, with the advent of computers, an exact and complete solution has been available since 1965.

Find the solution and use the number fragments that follow to derive the solution to this puzzle.

?11111?
?135791?
?111317?
235753?
123456?
?888888
18181?
?14141
46864?
?543210
34543?
?000000



Congratulations to first finder thanman2.


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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Hide] Syng - syrkvoyr - zntargvp

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)