[Az-Geocaching] The Future of Geocaching

Brian Cluff az-geocaching@listserv.snaptek.com
Fri, 28 Dec 2001 16:48:26 -0700 (MST)


> I thought Jeremy used Hex for the numbering system.  If so then when the
> number hits GC,16,16,16,16 (GCFFFF) then thats as high as it can go.

he is using hex which is a bas 16 numbering system, so 16 X 16 X 16 X 16 =
65536 total possibly caches.  All he would have to do is add one more
letter and we would then be able to hid 16 times the caches we currently
can.

Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek