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Re: Game Hint #2

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Originally Posted by jnutzmann View Post
I just recently looked at this clue and took a little different approach at deciphering it than others. I took this set of numbers as Cartesian coordinates to a vector that points outward. If the earth's center was placed at the origin, the vector would point to 76.4095839 degrees north latitude and 59.21185 degrees west longitude. I determined this by using the spherical coordinate system parametrization to convert to latitude and longitude. This is a point near the shore of Greenland (see below). This could also point to some sort of ice in the game??? Any thoughts about this approach?


well isent the greenland ice cap the biggest in the world?

oh, and dover england? are we crossing the channel?
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