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Puzzle In xkcd Book Finally Cracked

Posted by kdawson on from the be-there-or-be-somewhere-else dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After a little over five months of pondering, xkcd fans have cracked a puzzle hidden inside Randall Munroe's recent book xkcd: volume 0. Here is the start of the thread on the xkcd forums; and here is the post revealing the final message (a latitude and longitude plus a date and time)."

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  1. Re:Uh by kestasjk · · Score: 4, Informative

    These are comics with computer science / math / physics jokes..

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  2. Re:Uh by dotancohen · · Score: 4, Informative

    You mean this:
    http://xkcd.com/240/

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