I tested two million alternatives, 8 million in v3.  IN THREE AND THREE EIGHTHS RADIANS TEN is the personally confirmed solution, according to mathematics and the Zodiac’s methodology.

Posted by: @shaqmeister

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So, with everything else retained and only the erroneous and unachievable transformation from map to terrestial coordinates corrected, we make the few adjustments needed to derive the codebase linked below.

Apologies. The code formatting – a crucial element of Python coding – got mangled in posting. For anyone who is interested, you can try running and/or editing it at the Python Playground.

Posted by: @shaqmeister

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Posted by: @shaqmeister

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So, with everything else retained and only the erroneous and unachievable transformation from map to terrestial coordinates corrected, we make the few adjustments needed to derive the codebase linked below.

Apologies. The code formatting – a crucial element of Python coding – got mangled in posting. For anyone who is interested, you can try running and/or editing it at the Python Playground.

 

Glad I inspired you to use Python, you should have been doing that years ago, then you would have solved Z32 like I did.

And, with that, my work is done here.

Posted by: @coder1987

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How is this superior to the equilateral triangle landmark by LHR that points North and matches the first triangle symbol in the ciphertext when overlaid?

and

  "survivors": [
    {
      "phrase": "ATFOURANDAQUARTERINCHRADIANEIGHT",
      "readable": "AT FOUR AND A QUARTER INCH RADIAN EIGHT",
      "distance_inches": 4.25,
      "clock_hour": 8,
      "x_coord": -4.141072775337249,
      "y_coord": -0.9560419809614273,
      "nearest_scene": "presidio_heights",
      "nearest_dist_in": 0.4384870473158437,
      "template": "G"
    },
    {
      "phrase": "ATFOURANDATHIRDINCHESRADIANEIGHT",
      "readable": "AT FOUR AND AT H I R D INCHES RADIAN EIGHT",
      "distance_inches": 4.333333333333333,
      "clock_hour": 8,
      "x_coord": -4.222270280736018,
      "y_coord": -0.9747879021567494,
      "nearest_scene": "presidio_heights",
      "nearest_dist_in": 0.4443539767908618,
      "template": "G"
    },
    {
      "phrase": "INTHREEANDTHREEEIGHTHSRADIANSTEN",
      "readable": "IN THREE AND THREEEIGHTHS RADIANS TEN",
      "distance_inches": 3.375,
      "clock_hour": 10,
      "x_coord": -2.301744465210932,
      "y_coord": 2.468318742964701,
      "nearest_scene": "blue_rock_springs",
      "nearest_dist_in": 0.4797408279724981,
      "template": "A"
    },

… and all using nothing more than David Stampher’s very own codebase —suitably corrected to use map coordinates, of course.

It’s that simple, apparently.

Posted by: @shaqmeister

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suitably corrected to use map coordinates, of course.

That is, in inches. As per the assignment.

Sorry but your proposed plaintext does not contain any reference to inches.  I suppose you did not read the explicit instructions correctly.

IN THREE AND THREE EIGHTHS RADIANS TEN leads to this 100 foot equilateral triangle landmark by Lake Herman Road.  Awaiting the GPR scan to put this baby to bed.

It has been adorable to see you try.  Oh, how you have shifted around.  It has been amazing.  Did you find a better landmark with evidence of excavation, such as a crop mark?

I will be waiting for you to find a better one.  You keep saying Twin Peaks.  If any cows live there your proposal cannot be checked due to cow privacy.

Posted by: @coder1987

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Sorry but your proposed plaintext does not contain any reference to inches.

AT FOUR AND A QUARTER INCH RADIAN EIGHT

Did anyone else miss that entirely, or was it just David? 

So David, I feel forced to cut to the chase at this point because, for some reason, you seem to be of the mindset that you are currently engaged in some Tolkein-like battle with Shaqmeister the Logical Magician, or Shaqmeister the False Prophet, as you recently referred to me. In reality, however, nothing could be further from the truth.

I have posted away quietly in this otherwise dormant thread merely to provide a demonstration of the unavoidable pitfalls that will await our future searchers and ultimately save them some time in gently steering them towards a potentially more fruitful path. I, Shaqmeister, had purposely aimed to stay full away from reference to any single proposed solution, so as not to appear to be coming out to battle with any specific foe.

Alternatively, as has been the general theme throughout your time here, you have deliberately sought to inject your personal obsession into every post that I have ever made, and thus it is you that has striven to make everything about you and fantasise a mortal foe. This is not The Iliad. No Greeks and Trojans here.

This has been a demonstration setting out the analytical basis for seeking to avoid a common trap. Since you have, very reasonably, then been able to recognise this very failure in your own work, you have imagined us to be personally sparring.

I acknowledge I have, since having been pressed, pushed beyond my intentions and have given heed to your constant daily pinging only to show you exactly where and how your proposal fails, not on any final evaluation of any landmark found, but rather as to the failings in your method.

I cannot imagine that anyone reading this and other threads would disagree with my assessment that, contrary to your belief in the powers of your Copilot, you do not, in fact, have any ability – none that you have been able to evidence – to actually understand the concept of ‘method’, and how a proposal must fail when the method fails.

David, you are and have been completely out of your depth here. Shaqmeister has presented reasoned demonstrations and you have responded with gif-spamming. That is, in fact, all the response that we have ever had on this forum. But the reality is, that Shaqmeister is, modesty aside, far closer to the ranks of the ‘experts’ whose favour you so desparately seek to win than you could evidently, based on your appearance here, ever hope to aspire to.

As closer to their ranks then, I can “personally confirm” to you that their silence is not because they are overawed by the magnificence of some piece of work they are barely able to understand. Far more likely, it is because they can easily spot a fraud hiding behind an AI production merely demanding to be acknowledged.

If it hadn’t been for the fact that I have hung around to finish what I wanted to post here, you would have had silence from me also.

So, David. All that said, do you want to try and ping me again, or are you just going to stay in your lane and let the grown-ups have some grown-up time?

I will not be replying to you whichever you choose.

Sorry in advance for what’s coming, friends. Some things we just have to bear and suffer, like s#!t flies in summer.

It is like when you said there wasn’t a road close to my solution.

Then you said LHR has never been a bus route, for any school, including schools which no longer exist and have no records available.

IN THREE AND THREE EIGHTHS RADIANS TEN is the solution to Z32, it leads to the equilateral triangle landmark by Lake Herman Road and points North, and collects water when it rains.  There is a distinct inner circle within the triangle landmark, visible in multiple images over the years.

You also skipped the part of the falsification criteria.  You presented an alternative plaintext but show me a landmark that proves it is a burial site.  “You have until next Fall to dig it up…”

The reason you never solved Z32 is that you didn’t listen to the Zodiacs instructions.