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==Winners==
 
==Winners==

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The following users have won the Cubicle Geohash Achievement. This achievement can be attained only when the place where you work 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 workplace 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 workplace in square metres, then the probability P is represented by the following formula:

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

A typical cube dweller in Denver, Colorado (latitude 39°) has a chance of around one in 4,240,000. The same office drone in Vardø, Norway (latitude 70°) has a chance of around one in 1,840,000.

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

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

Question: What about for students? At our school?

Winners

Nobody has won this yet, be the first!

Honorable Mentions

Even if the coordinates aren't in your office, you can get an honorable mention if you work within 1km (a 20 minute walk) of the coordinates. While this is 1,400 times more likely to happen than the coordinates being in your workplace, it's still a long shot.

Also, if the coordinates are in your office, but you have the day off (ie. it's a sunday or christmas or random day off), you'll get an honorable mention if you do show up at work.

Nobody has won this yet, be the first!