The Algorithm

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The Algorithm
  1. The current date and the daily opening of the Dow Jones Industrial Average are fed through the MD5 cryptographic algorithm.
  2. The resulting string is split in half and converted to decimal values less than one.
  3. The decimal values are tagged onto the end of the integer values of any given graticule to produce the geohash target.