Difference between revisions of "1896-05-26 52 9"

Revision as of 09:23, 10 December 2018

“Think of me as a new kind of adventure capitalist” – UnwiseOwl

Location

The geohash is located on a field next to a forest near Burgwedel.

Participants

Fippe

Plans

The Dow Jones Industrial Average did not always exist, so I wanted to reach the coordinates of the first possible geohash.

According to this “fact sheet” published by S&P, the DJIA was first calculated on 1896-05-26. It also states that it's “Base Value” was 40.94, which might be it's closing value on that date, but I think it was the opening, since it seems to be the first recorded value. Anyway, I did the following calculations:

$ echo -n 1896-05-26-40.94 | md5sum
86286db8ec312754d58213752e58db41  -

Note that the 30W Time Zone Rule rule does not apply here, because this is a retrohash.

0.86286db8ec312754₁₆ = 0.52405439152443432826₁₀
0.d58213752e58db41₁₆ = 0.83401605234971347776₁₀
Destination: 52.52405439152443432826, 9.83401605234971347776

I plan to visit this retrohash on 2015-05-27, which is a day after the 219th anniversary of the first DJIA opening.

Expedition

It worked out. I walked there by foot from the train station in Großburgwedel, which is a couple of kilometers, but it was worth it. The Geohash itself is located in a field of Barley.

Photos

Proof that I am at the right spot for 1896-05-26, but far away from 2015-05-27
The Geohash
Landscape
Landscape

Achievements

Fippe earned the Dow Day Achievement

by reaching the extreme retro (52, 9) geohash on 1896-05-26.

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-<tr><td>[[File:1896-05-26 52 09 05 Map.png|300px]]<br><br>Fri 26 May 1896 in [[52,9|Hannover]]: <br><b>52.5240543, 9.8340160</b><br>[https://osm.org/?mlat=52.5240543&mlon=9.8340160&zoom=16 osm] [https://maps.google.com/?q=52.5240543,9.8340160 google]</td></tr></table>
+<tr><td>[[File:1896-05-26 52 09 05 Map.png|300px]]<br><br>[[Retrohash|Fri 26 May 1896]] in [[52,9|Hannover]]: <br><b>52.5240543, 9.8340160</b><br>[https://osm.org/?mlat=52.5240543&mlon=9.8340160 osm] [https://maps.google.com/?q=52.5240543,9.8340160 google]</td></tr></table>
 ==Location==
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 *<code>0.d58213752e58db41<sub>16</sub> = 0.83401605234971347776<sub>10</sub></code>
 *Destination: <code>52.52405439152443432826, 9.83401605234971347776</code>
-Unfortunately, this hash seems to be ''too'' retro, so <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[template:meetup graticule|meetup graticule]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> did not work properly. If you want to have an aerial view, you can [https://www.google.com/maps?q=52.52405439152443432826,9.83401605234971347776 take a look at it] on Google Maps, though.
 I plan to visit this retrohash on '''2015-05-27''', which is a day after the 219th anniversary of the first DJIA opening.