(urth) The Seal of Pas

[Marc Aramini]

If it has any meaning, I think it might be a more traditional cipher, but I
don't have the patience.  Coordinates make little narrative sense (the
whorl never went much of anywhere, anyways, or if it did, in a nice big
Noah's Ark style circle.  [Eratosthenes' well is one of my favorite
stories].)


On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at clueland.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, October 1, 2014 11:18, António Marques wrote:
> > That is fun, if nothing else, as an external easter egg (thank you for
> > researching it), but it certainly can't mean anything internally to the
> > story, even in a Jar of Tang situation.
>
> I don't know about that; GW uses addresses/coordinates' subtext elsewhere.
> However, I think this particular encoding is not right because it has
> ridiculous precision and insufficient address space to cover 180 degrees
> nor 24 hours. Moving the decimal to the right helps but leaves us with out
> of range coordinates; some positions can have both.
>
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