55.6992.3840

[ColdGlider]

If you group the numbers into two-digit decimal codes, then convert to ASCII, you get Gherjsz.  Well, actually you get:

55=7
69=E
92=\
38=&
40=(

...which may as well be Gherjsz.  Might be worth remembering that 55=7 in ASCII, though.

[EnigmaBiz]

I have no idea how to figure out how to lay out Latitude and Longitude, but I do feel like its on the right track. I fooled around a bit, attached are some of my results.

http://http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html

I was working from this site. I also cheated by removing decimals.

55.69923840
89.0387722

[thebraino]

Looks cold either way.

[EnigmaBiz]

Isn't MS based on a real city?....wonder what its Latitude and Longitude is....

[EnigmaBiz]

Never mind.


Mombasa, Kenya
Region: Coast
Country: Kenya
Latitude: -4.05
Longitude: 39.6666667

[Scatcycle]

Try setting the date to the day the mombasa invasion happend? Or can the xbox not go to 2552? try the month date. I think we could get the date (if we dont already know) from sadies story

[ColdGlider]

We know that this number- The Ubiquitous Number (UN)- appears above District Doors... but does it appear over EVERY district door, all of the time?  Well... to answer that question we simply need to take a photo of every vid screen above every side of every door!  So if you're not feeling keen to posit and/or test a new theory of what the number is, you can still help by mapping out where it occurs.
 

A District Door HAQ (Hypothetically Asked Questions)

Q:  How many District Doors are in New Mombasa?
A:  38, if you include the four "ONI Doors" which lead from D10 into the ONI area; otherwise, 34.  This includes locked district doors doors, including those that lead into (or are within) dark areas.  

Q:  How do we accurately specify which door we took a photo of?
A:  If you use my District Door IDs (image,thread) when you name your photo files, everything should tie together nicely!  Don't forget that the SGP has many fine blank maps if you need them for marking down your own finds!

Q:  So how should we split this up so we can all work together?
A:  I suggest that interested members simply pick a district and run with it... just let us know which one you're working on so that others can choose a different one.  I call D09!  I'll also do a larger one like D08 if nobody else wants it.

We should make sure to snap photos of both sides of the door when possible.  Also, at least one door (D0508-B) changes state. (It's locked when you begin a campaign, then unlocked when you start the Mombasa Streets mission.)  Theoretically, this means there are 76 sides- but currently we do not have access to see the other side of 15 locked doors... and one we cannot see at all (D0299-A).  This brings the number down to 57 (if I counted correctly!)  Fifty-seven photos in five days (or less) among the entire SGP:  cake, right?

[Dunder Moose]

I wondered if the numbers were representative of their positions in the alphabet (i.e. a=1, b=2 etc.)  When that Gherjsz-ed out on me I wondered if perhaps it still held true but with a Caesarian Cipher (ie. a=1 +1, b=2+1, etc.) so I made a program in Excel for checking out the Rotated permutations.  The classic Caesarian cypher is Rot-13 meaning you add 13 to each position's numerical value, effectively moving it halfway through the alphabet.  Spoiler:  I got Gherjsz down the pipe, but for the sake of thoroughness here are all the permutations.  I only went through Rot-25 because Rot-26 would start it over at Rot-0.

e   e   f   i   i   b   c   h   d   z ROT 0
f   f   g   j   j   c   d   i   e   a ROT 1
g   g   h   k   k   d   e   j   f   b ROT 2
h   h   i   l   l   e   f   k   g   c ROT 3
i   i   j   m   m   f   g   l   h   d ROT 4
j   j   k   n   n   g   h   m   i   e ROT 5
k   k   l   o   o   h   i   n   j   f ROT 6
l   l   m   p   p   i   j   o   k   g ROT 7
m   m   n   q   q   j   k   p   l   h ROT 8
n   n   o   r   r   k   l   q   m   i ROT 9
o   o   p   s   s   l   m   r   n   j ROT 10
p   p   q   t   t   m   n   s   o   k ROT 11
q   q   r   u   u   n   o   t   p   l ROT 12
r   r   s   v   v   o   p   u   q   m ROT 13
s   s   t   w   w   p   q   v   r   n ROT 14
t   t   u   x   x   q   r   w   s   o ROT 15
u   u   v   y   y   r   s   x   t   p ROT 16
v   v   w   z   z   s   t   y   u   q ROT 17
w   w   x   a   a   t   u   z   v   r ROT 18
x   x   y   b   b   u   v   a   w   s ROT 19
y   y   z   c   c   v   w   b   x   t ROT 20
z   z   a   d   d   w   x   c   y   u ROT 21
a   a   b   e   e   x   y   d   z   v ROT 22
b   b   c   f   f   y   z   e   a   w ROT 23
c   c   d   g   g   z   a   f   b   x ROT 24
d   d   e   h   h   a   b   g   c   y ROT 25



Moose out...

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[thebraino]

Scatcycle makes an interesting point here.
We've considered looking a coordinates for our world, but havn't looked around in the ODST's world.
Similarly, if each district is it's own zone, it might have it's own coordinates.
Obviously each FF map will also have it's own.

[VsH Tepec Fett]

Very intersting, it could make us totally mad, but :

if a=1, or 27, or (...) 6978, we have

55=C
6992=N
3840=L

Any idea ?
Does anyone tried something by changing date on the Xbox to October 26th 2015 ..?

Good luck !

Tepec

[The Lost Fox]

Hey there I was looking over this topic and I thought I would throw in a random thought. Gherjsz keeps coming up when you try the alphabet thing. So what if it's in another language? I am The Lost Fox by the way some of you may remember me as kenji's friend or guest profile mostly considering I am still trying to get a gold membership.

I also noticed this number on the forum. 55.7759.7736. Have you tried that alphabet trick with this number? Maybe it's like a word jumble?

[Imppa]

You know Kenji? do you know why he hasn't been here for a while? 

I don't recall seeing that number before...Where did you get it from again?

[nightcrafter27]

[enter nightcrafter the necromancer]

Has anyone tryed going to Enigma's coordinates in-game?

[ColdGlider]

These look like they might be geographic coordinates expressed in decimal degrees.  (Please check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_degrees if you're unfamiliar with these.)

Google Maps (GMAPS) makes it simple to check.  Just type the coordinates into the search textbox here:
http://maps.google.com/
For instance, try the coordinates -4.057532,39.670431 which should take you to a location in Mombasa, Kenya.  Now where have I seen that name before?

You can also specify URL parameters to directly link to a location based on coordinates. Use the base URL http://maps.google.com/maps
then add the "q" parameter to specify the coordinates, like so:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=-4.073387,39.671541
Hey!  What do you know!  Another familiar name. 

But I digress...  the point is that the ubiquitous number could be half of a lat-long pair (geocode value) for a real-world location.
For instance, the lat might be 55.6992.  Or 55.69923840.  If we zero out the missing coordinate, we have four possible starting locations.  The second one looks darn promising:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=55.69923840,0
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=0,55.69923840
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=-55.69923840,0
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=0,-55.69923840

Using the number for both coordinates puts us right on highway 315 in Russia (which happens to intersect highway 317 14.2490 miles south!):
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=55.69923840,55.69923840

Perhaps other cryptic numbers we have seen in ODST indicate offsets of this coordinate.

I'm excited to see what other possibilities you find using the ubiquitous number in a geo coordinate!

[Scatcycle]

It's everywhere.



Found here:
http://www.bungie.net/Inside/publications.aspx#pub15066

Under: Evolving Halo 3's Behavior Tree AI