# The Seal of Pas *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 02 Oct 2014* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Marc Aramini *02 Oct 2014, 00:37* 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 wrote: > > On Wed, October 1, 2014 11:18, Ant?nio 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. > > -- > Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com > > A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab > < http://www.tamut.edu/cil > > > _______________________________________________ ---