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DanielG · Post by **DanielG** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:22 pm

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?

fridolin · Post by **fridolin** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:33 am

Its a good direction but i can't say more

DanielG · Post by **DanielG** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:25 pm

Should I take that "direction" literal or not

MerickOWA · Post by **MerickOWA** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:08 pm

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

honze · Post by **honze** » Sun May 10, 2009 4:08 pm

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.

Axxaran · Post by **Axxaran** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 7:15 pm

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?

ShadowWidow · Post by **ShadowWidow** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 7:01 pm

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 ?

alalkeimst · Post by **alalkeimst** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:26 am

Pretty tricky challenge! You just have to search the whole world to solve this one

Sun Jul 03, 2011 8:41 pm

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?

DaymItzJack · Post by **DaymItzJack** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:04 pm

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.

Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:04 pm

DaymItzJack wrote:Just solved this challenge, I have to say it's pretty stupid.

Why am I not surprised?

satfreak666 · Post by **satfreak666** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:46 am

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" ...

bsguedes · Post by **bsguedes** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:16 pm

ShadowWidow almost wrote the answer in this thread... remember the coordinate system has four quadrants.

Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:43 pm

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?

bsguedes · Post by **bsguedes** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 7:20 am

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