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Easy as Pi Mystery Cache

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leaf720: I was out on a walk today and noticed that the bushes where I hid the cache have been removed, so it's evidently gone with them. I haven't cached in a while but I know how important it is to take care of this as soon as possible. I would hate for someone to solve the puzzle only to pull up to a nearly empty field.

As for the puzzle: using letters-to-numbers, the numbers corresponding to the given strings in the description (HDJJEA and TDSFHE) are 84101051 and 20419685 respectively. The strings that start at the 84,101,051st and 20,419,685th digits of pi are 4519889 and 07540570 respectively, which can be looked up on a few different pi searching websites. So then you could deduce from those strings that they're the final coordinates (N 45° 19.889', W 075° 40.570'). Basically a kilometre southeast of the posted coordinates. I remember worrying that I had maybe overrated the difficulty, but I don't feel too dissatisfied considering the geocheck results.

Apologies if you were currently working on this or needed a hint and I missed your request due to my inactivity/hiatus, but thanks so much to those who went out of their way to replace the log or cache when it was needed, as well as everyone else who took a stab at the puzzle, successfully or not.

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Hidden : 4/21/2014
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Cache is not at the posted coordinates.

Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. This is true for any and every circle. 

Archimedes estimated pi to be approximately 22/7. Centuries and centuries later in 1706, William Jones first used the symbol π. It was then popularized around 1737 by Leonhard Euler, a Swiss mathematician. It has been used to represent pi ever since. Today, pi can be calculated to over 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) digits. Only 39 of these digits are needed to accurately calculate the volume of the universe.

Pi is an infinite number, and with over a trillion digits known, it is said to contain every possible number sequence there is.

Use these letters to find the final coordinates:

 

Latitude: HDJJEA

Longitude: TDSFHE

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Hfr bar bs gur zbfg onfvp, pbzzba pvcuref gb ortva (abg guvf bar). Lbh znl jnag gb qb fbzr "frnepuvat" nebhaq nobhg cv.

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)