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Post by ndrqu on Apr 22, 2015 14:00:01 GMT
Let me explain you this puzzle. This a mountain, some place around the globe, but it is an interesting mountain. I liked hhgygy's "number" challenge so I will do something like that here. Here is the number: 0.0033528
The number is everything you have to work with, and it CAN lead you to this mountain if you are smart enough. First hint in 24 hours, good luck!   GE photo needed. And please, make sure you can't reverse search on google  |
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Post by krenek on Apr 22, 2015 14:20:00 GMT
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Post by Walter_V_R on Apr 22, 2015 14:30:20 GMT
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Post by johnluke on Apr 22, 2015 14:58:05 GMT
The number is everything you have to work with, and it CAN lead you to this mountain if you are smart enough. First hint in 24 hours, good luck! The rest of us stupid people will anxiously wait for your first hint. |
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Post by ET_Explorer on Apr 22, 2015 19:43:28 GMT
The Number leads me to two locations?
The First Location is a WEBPAGE THAT ISN'T AVAILABLE.
The Second Location is 95 MILES OFF THE GABON COAST
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Post by ndrqu on Apr 23, 2015 10:27:17 GMT
Congratulations Krenek and Walter. That made me laugh  I can see the anger in your words! First Hint: The number describes something about the shape of our Earth. This something gives to this mountain a really good help... |
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Post by hhgygy on Apr 23, 2015 14:21:15 GMT
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Post by johnluke on Apr 23, 2015 16:09:48 GMT
Oh, that mountain. I was had by a GE classic. I didn't even recognize it. I still don't know what the number is, but thanks to the clue I didn't need the number. Otherwise, I don't see how the number could help, there are like thousands of pages with that number...   |
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Post by Groovy23 on Apr 24, 2015 4:45:30 GMT
Aha!   |
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Post by alchemist251 on Apr 24, 2015 5:47:59 GMT
 I'm pretty sure I know what the number is. |
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Post by ndrqu on Apr 26, 2015 10:41:19 GMT
Final hint: So the number is the value of the earth's spheroidal model oblation (or flattening). Thanks to that, this mountain actually holds a World Record that you would expect from Mount Everest instead... |
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Post by ndrqu on Jun 1, 2015 10:59:59 GMT
Solution: This is the Mount Chimborazo, in Ecuador (very close to the equator). The top of this mountain is the most distant spot of the Earth's surface from the Earth's center. You would expect Mount Everest to hold that record, but that's not true, because the Earth is not a perfect sphere but a spheroid, flattened at the poles and with an equatorial bulge. The number "0.0033528" is the flattening value of the Earth. |
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I can see the anger in your words!
