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The following users have won the Couch Potato Geohash Achievement. This achievement can be attained only when the place where you live is exactly under the coordinates of a particular day. This is incredibly lucky, and the chance of this happening to you is the area of your domicile divided by the area of the quadrangle you're in. Assuming a sphere of radius R (Earth is approximately 6,370,000m), θ = the absolute value of your graticule's latitude in degrees, and H = the size of your domicile in square metres, then the probability P is represented by the following formula:
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Should you happen to win this achievement, or the honourable mention, you will surely want to use this template to make yourself a ribbon.
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This achievement can be attained only when the place where you live is exactly under the coordinates of a particular day. This is incredibly lucky, and the chance of this happening to you is the area of your domicile divided by the area of the [[graticule]] you're in. Assuming a sphere of radius R (Earth is approximately 6,370,000m), θ = the absolute value of your graticule's latitude in degrees, and H = the size of your domicile in square metres, then the probability P is represented by the following formula:
  
 
<center>P&nbsp;=&nbsp;H&nbsp;/&nbsp;(&nbsp;[&pi;R<sup>2</sup>&nbsp;/&nbsp;180]&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;[sin(&theta;+1)&nbsp;-&nbsp;sin(&theta;)]&nbsp;)</center>
 
<center>P&nbsp;=&nbsp;H&nbsp;/&nbsp;(&nbsp;[&pi;R<sup>2</sup>&nbsp;/&nbsp;180]&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;[sin(&theta;+1)&nbsp;-&nbsp;sin(&theta;)]&nbsp;)</center>
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If this does happen to you, you are required to throw a mad-keen party at a day's notice.
 
If this does happen to you, you are required to throw a mad-keen party at a day's notice.
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If we assume that the average geohasher has a one in 100,000,000 chance for this to happen, and each person checks the coordinates everyday. Then the expected time for this to happen for the first time is roughly:
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<center>(273,785&nbsp;/&nbsp;# of geohashers) years</center>
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If we assume that the probability of two or more geohashers at different graticules winning the Coach Potato Achievement on the same day is zero. So if for example there are 5,000 geohashers the expected time for this to happen is 54 years and 9 months.
  
 
This is one of those things that probably won't ever happen, but <em>how cool would it be if it did?</em>.
 
This is one of those things that probably won't ever happen, but <em>how cool would it be if it did?</em>.
  
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Even if the coordiantes aren't in your house, you can get an honorable mention if you live within 1km (a 15 minute walk) of the coordinates. While this is 33,800 times more likely to happen than the coordinates being in your domicile, it's still a long shot.
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Note that geohashers may increase their chances of winning the Couch Potato by playing the stock market and becoming a [[Geohash_Hacking|Geohash hacker]]
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You could also potentially purchase a house or apartment in which a geohash falls and settle the location extremely quickly, a less math-prone method of gaining the Couch Potato Geohash through attempt rather than blind chance.
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Award banners are available [[Template:Couch_potato_geohash|here]].
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==In Popular Culture==
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{{quote||In Soviet Russia, geohash reaches you.}}
  
 
==Winners==
 
==Winners==
  
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<em>Nobody has won this yet, be the first!</em>
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*[[user:chemluth|chemluth]] had the [[2018-09-01 49 9|1st September 2018 geohash]] in the Würzburg graticule right in his livingroom.
  
 
==Honorable Mentions==
 
==Honorable Mentions==
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[[Image:Couchpotatohm.png‎ |thumb|200 px|Couch Potato Geohash Honorable Mention Icon]]
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Even if the coordinates aren't in your house, you can get an honorable mention if you live within 1km (a 15-minute walk) of the coordinates and reach the coordinates on the appropriate day. While this is 33,800 times more likely to happen than the coordinates being in your domicile, it's still a long shot.
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Keep a keen eye and be willing to introduce geohash-neophyte friends to the sport. Or make new friends, who live at the day's lucky dwelling. This will wildly increase the odds.
  
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<em>Nobody has won this yet, be the first!</em>
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*[[user:Celebithil|Celebithil]] claims to have reached Sunday June 1's [[2008-06-01 52 4|geohash location]] in the [[Noord_West_Nederland]] graticule, located just under 1 km from his house, thereby earning the first Couch Potato Honorable Mention.
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*[[user:Orbatos|Orbatos]] reached [[2008-06-04 61 -149|June 4th's geohash]] in the [[Anchorage%2C_Alaska|Anchorage, AK]] graticule located just 0.7 km from his residence.
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*[[user:Matt (2008)|Matt]] passed through [[2008-06-07 42 -71|June 7's geohash]] in the [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] graticule a number of times, as it was located on the highway approximately .8 km from his house.
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*[[user:Ahecht|AHecht]] reached the [[2008-06-24 42 -71|June 24th Boston Geohash]] which was located .9 km away from his house.
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*[[User:Joannac|Joanna]] reached the [[2008-09-07 -35 149|September 7 Canberra geohash]] which was located about 600m from her house.
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*[[User:Tomcat|Tomcat]] reached the [[2008-09-29 49 11|September 29 Nuremberg geohash]] which was located about 700 m from his house.
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*[[User:Hessophanes|Hessophanes]] reached the [[2008-10-16 52 13|October 16 Berlin geohash]] about 200m from his old flat two weeks before he officially moved out of it.
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*[[User:Floffe|Floffe]] reached the [[2008-11-30 57 18|November 30 Visby geohash]] about 950m from his current home and 400m from an apartment he moved in to a week later.
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*[[User:Danatar|Danatar]] took this honourable mention twice: First he reached the [[2009-02-12 49 9|2009-02-12 Würzburg, Germany]] location which was 850 m from his place, a few years later he moved and then reached the [[2014-11-13 51 13|2014-11-13 Dresden, Germany]] location which was 650 m from his new place.
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*[[User:Involute|Involute]] reached the [[2009-03-03 36 -76|2009-03-03 Norfolk, Virginia]] geohash location which was 317 m from his house.
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*[[User:tjm1983|tjm1983]] reached the [[2009-05-05 -41 174|2009-05-05 Wellington, New Zealand]] geohash location which was 475m from his house.
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*[[User:AlexF|AlexF]] reached the [[2009-06-24 40 -74|2009-06-24 Newark]] geohash location which was 569 m from his house.
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*[[User:Kozz|Kozz]] unintentionally reached the [[2009-08-01 -37 145|2009-08-01 Melbourne, Australia]] geohash location which was 81m from his house.
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*[[User:Mahahahaneapneap|Mahahahaneapneap]] reached the [[2009-10-12 50 -1]] geohash twice, first at midnight and then again with friends in the afternoon. The location was 920 metres from his house.
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*[[User:Mikkozzz|Mikkozzz]] reached the [[2009-11-13 60 24|2009-11-13 Helsinki]] geohash location which was 450 m (as crow flies) from his house. 580 meters for not being a crow.
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*[[2010-05-03 49 8]] was 920 meters from [[User:Koepfel|Koepfel]]'s house and even closer to [[User:Fluxkompensator|Fluxkompensator]]'s.
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*[[2010-12-28 55 13]] was less than 210 meters from [[User:OlofL|OlofL]]'s house.
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*[[2011-08-20 66 25]] was about 780 meters from [[User:isopekka|isopekka]]'s house.
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*[[2011-10-04 53 -113]] was 350 metres from [[User:Meghan|Meghan]]'s house.
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*[[2012-08-19 49 7]] was 640 meters from [[User:Triqueon|Triqueon]]'s house.
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*[[2012-10-15 55 13]] was 125 meters from [[User:Mjaje|Mjaje]]'s house.
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*[[2012-10-30 47 8]] was 895 meters from [[User:Foehammer|Foehammer]]'s house.
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*[[2012-12-12 -37 145]] was ~900m from [[User:Stevage|Stevage]]'s house.
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*[[2013-02-20 42 -88]] was 880m from [[User:StatMan22|StatMan22]]'s house.
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*[[2013-04-23 40 -86]] was 720m from [[User:Buttercup|Buttercup]]'s home.
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*[[2013-05-24 49 -122]] was 998m from [[user:Juventas|Juventas]]'s house.
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*[[2013-09-13 50 11]] was 850m from [[user:Jens|Jens]]' house.
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*[[2013-11-09 42 -88]] was 287m from [[User:StatMan22|StatMan22]]'s house, not sure if Buttercup also qualifies...
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*[[2013-11-30_global]] was 1km from [[User:Tilley|Tilley]]'s house, and then a year later, [[2014-11-28 62 27]] was only 152 meters from him, but he was unable to reach the actual point, which was inside some other house.
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*[[2013-12-13 49 -122]] was about 700m from [[User:Rex Wolf|Rex]]'s apartment.
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*[[2014-04-21 51 -1]] was 300m from [[User:DanQ|Dan Q]]'s house
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*[[2014-04-17 50 -1]] was about 920m from [[User:Macronencer|Macronencer]]'s home.
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*[[2014-05-21 47 -122]] was about 400m from [[User:OlofHellman|OlofHellman]]'s home.
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*[[2015-11-22 66 25]] was about 380 meters from [[User:isopekka|isopekka]]'s house.
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*[[2016-01-31 51 -4]] was about 800 meters from [[User:Fiat_Luxia|Fiat Luxia]]'s house, which was additionally his first ever geohash. Not bad.
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*[[2016-02-21 42 -85]] was about 310 meters from [[User:Mcbaneg|George]]'s house.
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*[[2016-11-02 -43 172]] was about 450 meters from [[User:Quaternary|Quaternary]]'s house.
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*[[2016-12-03 66 25]] was about 855 meters from [[User:isopekka|isopekka]]'s house.
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*[[2017-07-31 52 0]] was just over 350 metres from [[User:PaintedJaguar|PaintedJaguar]]'s house.
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*[[2017-11-01 47 -122]] was just '''10.8''' meters from [[User:Thomcat|Thomcat]]'s back fence. Closest yet!
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*[[2018-05-16 49 8]] was 460 meters from [[User:DODO|DODO]]'s home.
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* [[User:Eupeodes|Eupeodes]] for [[2019-01-11 53 4]], ~420 meters from his home (and ~570 meters of his office).
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*[[2019-01-23 53 9]] was 21 meters from Mr. Schulze's home.
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*[[2019-02-04 52 9]] was 620 meters from [[User:Fippe|Fippe]]'s home.
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*[[2020-01-22 52 8]] was 300 meters from [[User:Jan|Jan]]'s home.
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*[[2020-02-01 53 -2]] was 805 metres from [[User:KarMann|KarMann's]] home.
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*[[2021-02-18 47 -122]] was about 700 meters from [[User:Coyotebush|coyotebush]]'s home.
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*[[2021-06-07 31 -97]] was only 20m beyond the back fence of [[User:Gabe|Gabe]]'s home.
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*[[2022-11-19 41 2]] was about 790m meters from [[User:SastRe.O|SastRe.O]]'s home.
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*[[2023-03-08 51 13]] was about 160m away from [[User:Oisín|Oisín]]'s home
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*[[2024-08-16 51 5]] was about 500m away from [[User:SomeDutchman|SomeDutchman]]'s home.
  
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Latest revision as of 23:36, 16 August 2024

Couch Potato Geohash Icon

Template:Couch potato geohash

Couchpotatogeohash.png
 This user earned the Couch Potato Geohash Achievement
by living at the ({{{latitude}}}, {{{longitude}}}) geohash on [[{{{date}}} {{{latitude}}} {{{longitude}}}|{{{date}}}]].

Should you happen to win this achievement, or the honourable mention, you will surely want to use this template to make yourself a ribbon.

This achievement can be attained only when the place where you live is exactly under the coordinates of a particular day. This is incredibly lucky, and the chance of this happening to you is the area of your domicile divided by the area of the graticule you're in. Assuming a sphere of radius R (Earth is approximately 6,370,000m), θ = the absolute value of your graticule's latitude in degrees, and H = the size of your domicile in square metres, then the probability P is represented by the following formula:

P = H / ( [πR2 / 180] · [sin(θ+1) - sin(θ)] )

A typical apartment dweller in Denver, Colorado (latitude 39°) has a chance of around one in 106,000,000. The same apartment dweller in Vardø, Norway (latitude 70°) has a chance of around one in 46,000,000.

If this does happen to you, you are required to throw a mad-keen party at a day's notice.

If we assume that the average geohasher has a one in 100,000,000 chance for this to happen, and each person checks the coordinates everyday. Then the expected time for this to happen for the first time is roughly:

(273,785 / # of geohashers) years

If we assume that the probability of two or more geohashers at different graticules winning the Coach Potato Achievement on the same day is zero. So if for example there are 5,000 geohashers the expected time for this to happen is 54 years and 9 months.

This is one of those things that probably won't ever happen, but how cool would it be if it did?.

Note that geohashers may increase their chances of winning the Couch Potato by playing the stock market and becoming a Geohash hacker

You could also potentially purchase a house or apartment in which a geohash falls and settle the location extremely quickly, a less math-prone method of gaining the Couch Potato Geohash through attempt rather than blind chance.

Award banners are available here.

In Popular Culture

“
In Soviet Russia, geohash reaches you.
 ”
—Anon

Winners

Honorable Mentions

Couch Potato Geohash Honorable Mention Icon

Even if the coordinates aren't in your house, you can get an honorable mention if you live within 1km (a 15-minute walk) of the coordinates and reach the coordinates on the appropriate day. While this is 33,800 times more likely to happen than the coordinates being in your domicile, it's still a long shot.

Keep a keen eye and be willing to introduce geohash-neophyte friends to the sport. Or make new friends, who live at the day's lucky dwelling. This will wildly increase the odds.

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