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Arithmomania LbNA #66205

Owner:MrOspital
Plant date:Nov 12, 2013
Location: Murphy Ranch Park
City:Whittier
County:Los Angeles
State:California
Boxes:2
Found by: MrOspital (2)
Last found:Mar 28, 2015
Status:FFFaO
Last edited:Nov 12, 2013
Today's a day for recognizing order amid the onslaught of chaos, or for having a memorable wedding date.
It's 11-12-13. And if you believe in making moments count, this morning offered two special ones as well: 8:09:10 11-12-13, taking this down to the second, and 9:10 11-12-13, which will last for a whole minute.

Arithmomania
Okay so I'm not obsessed with patterns and mathematics, but I had to plant a box for today. The fact that there won't be a 13-13-13 shows we're near the end of a period with frequent numerologically curious date patterns, because no longer can the year match the month. Last year had not only 10-11-12 but 12-12-12, a triple that won't happen again till the first day of the next century.

Next year will have the last sequential date, 12-13-14, till 01-02-03. (Go by European notation, putting the date first, and Dec. 11 -- also written 11-12-13 -- will mark the end of that sort of sequential pattern this century.) Oh, there will still be quadruples every 11 years (2-2-22 is next), and yearly doubles (1-3-13), but they lack the proper symmetry factor.
Also a couple of extra-special Pi Days are coming, though, where the year comes into play. They are 3-14-15 - matching the mathematical constant's first five digits - and 3-14-16, which is closer to its actual value of 3.14159 etc.

A yearly series of countdowns by ones ended with 12-11-10, and palindrome fans, who had their heyday from 11-11-11 to 11-22-11 a couple of Novembers ago, will have to settle for the strained likes of 4-1-14 or 02-11-20 until next century.
And after next year, you'll have to wait until 1:02 03-04-05 to again include hours and minutes. Patterns can always be found, of course. 11-22-33 will actually be the first such triple double date this century.
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Planted on 11/12/13
Head east along wide dirt trail past the map keeping the culvert on your left. (I think I saw a chipmunk scurry up the hill to the right.) Eventually you will come to a large boulder on the right near a tree. From there look for a pine to the right of the trail heading down into the culvert) Look behind it under debris.
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Planted on 3.14
Continue up the high road passing an upright cylinder chained to a tree. The equation soon takes a sharp right through some swtichbacks to a metal quadrilateral embedded in the trail. Head left on a small ray headed NE past a large Eucalyptus, staying above the creek to the left. When you come to the quadrilateral prisms used to create a vertical slope look left just past it and under a large chunk of concrete for the box planted on **3.14**.

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By the way, next year 12-13-14 is on a Saturday.

Listed at 9:10 am on 11/12/13.