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Post by DanielG »

I've tried to convert it into 5 GPS coordinates, however all 5 are in sea.
Is this a good path to follow or am I totally barking up the wrong tree?
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Post by fridolin »

Its a good direction but i can't say more ;-)
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Post by DanielG »

Should I take that "direction" literal or not :wink:
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Post by MerickOWA »

I don't remember the coordinates being in the water, but they may appear that way at first.
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Post by honze »

I looked at these 5 numbers and they start all with 00. If you make an international phone call from Germany to any other country, you would dial 00 and then the country code. (Dunno if that works for other countries.)

I looked the countries up, but for the third I can't find a country. So I think I am wrong.
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Post by Axxaran »

After hours of trying some strange names of excotic towns in the direction, it would be nice get some more hints. Are the names in the native language, or whatever?
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Post by ShadowWidow »

Can somebody gibe me a little hint ?

I have trid to use these numbers as geo location:

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0023021191310843 = N 0.230211 E 91.310843
0050286091123267 = N 0.502860 E 91.123267
0014465890424072 = N 0.144658 E 90.424072
0038063490225388 = N 0.380634 E 90.225388
0050113189282402 = N 0.501131 E 89.282402
But these 5 Positions are all a in the sea, west from Malaysia - but thats not the solution.
Am i totaly wrong or am i on the right track ?
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Post by alalkeimst »

Pretty tricky challenge! You just have to search the whole world to solve this one :wink:
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Post by AMindForeverVoyaging »

ShadowWidow wrote: I have trid to use these numbers as geo location:
0023021191310843 = N 0.230211 E 91.310843
0050286091123267 = N 0.502860 E 91.123267
0014465890424072 = N 0.144658 E 90.424072
0038063490225388 = N 0.380634 E 90.225388
0050113189282402 = N 0.501131 E 89.282402
Doesn't sound like a bad approach, but: How do we know if it's not, say, N 23.0211 E 9.1310843? Depending on where you put the decimal point, that could generate different coordinates.

Is there a common convention on how to convert this type of data?
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Post by DaymItzJack »

Just solved this challenge, I have to say it's pretty stupid. Not only did you have you fix the numbers some how (or I just don't understand it correctly), the numbers given weren't even really close to the answer at all and I once again just guessed and found out I was correct.
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Post by AMindForeverVoyaging »

DaymItzJack wrote:Just solved this challenge, I have to say it's pretty stupid.
Why am I not surprised? :?
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Post by satfreak666 »

DaymItzJack wrote:Just solved this challenge, I have to say it's pretty stupid. Not only did you have you fix the numbers some how (or I just don't understand it correctly), the numbers given weren't even really close to the answer at all and I once again just guessed and found out I was correct.
Actually the coordinates resolve to an "x" ...
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Post by bsguedes »

ShadowWidow almost wrote the answer in this thread... remember the coordinate system has four quadrants.
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Post by AMindForeverVoyaging »

bsguedes wrote:remember the coordinate system has four quadrants.
And quadrants have algebraic signs, or so I learned at school. ;)

What I mean is that this information has been omitted from the data we have been given - am I right?
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Post by bsguedes »

Maybe... whatever, this thread almost writes the answer for this challenge with all the hints given...
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