Re: [Az-Geocaching] Major League Cacher and Cache Density

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Author: AJ George
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Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Major League Cacher and Cache Density
I recall there was a thread on gc.com in the last year or two that
addressed this very subject. I can't remember what the final tally was
and too tired to try to find it right now.


On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:27:26 -0700, Brian Casteel <> wrote:
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> I prefer to look at it as being a cluster. J
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> Yes but we know the other sites don't play by the same rules so there
> density could be quite higher. The big problem if they are not labeled
> right how do you know which one you found.
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> So it not a power grid but a grid lock.
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> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 5:44 PM
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> those would be listed on both sites :)
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> What if someone wanted to use a blue container with a white lid, or spawn
> mass-confusion by deliberately inter-mingling the containers? Oh, the
> insanity.
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> Brian
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> actually lets make that 128 GC.com plus 128 Navicaches plus 128 Terracaches
> and if the GC use red containers Navicache uses white and Terracaches use
> blue. thus avoiding confusion
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> From: Tim Giron
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> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 10:47 PM
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> I know I'm joining this party late, but I brought an extra one: 128 as
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> row     num  cumulative side length   

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>  1       11          0.000

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>  2       11        528.000

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>  3       11       1056.000

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>  4       11       1584.000

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>  5       10       2041.261

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>  6       11       2498.523

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>  7       10       2955.784

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>  8       11       3413.046

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>  9       10       3870.307

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> 10       11       4327.568

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> 11       10       4784.830

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> 12       11       5242.091

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>         128

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> Now the real question, in light of the earlier discussions around "power
> trails"... is this a "power grid" ;)
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> After I corrected my dumb error, I came up with 127. You can make one of
> the inbetween rows 11 as well and skip the triangles, but I don't think
> there is enough to do it twice, so it only adds one.
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> Bill's right : there's room to double up some square rows in the middle of
> the equilateral grid - probably enough to push the total to 128 or 129.
> Mathematicians will have to provide the best answer. Maybe I'll dump the
> question into the GC.com forums.
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> --Dave, The Cow Spots
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> Also, did you know?-
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> The maximum number of caches you can fit in a square mile is 100? Well, that
> is IF GC.com actually stuck to their .1 "ahem"..."guideline".
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AJ George II