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	Compass Points
	Posted By: Forrest of B.org	Date: 5/29/01 9:14 a.m.
	In Response To: A few insights (good ones, please read!) (Locucious) : The glyphs in the centers are the strangest part. They all seem to represent : numbers, expressed in a variety of different ways. Maybe each deciphered : number is used to "point" to a number on the outer side of the : circle. You know, an Indiana Jones type deal where a puzzle must be solved : to determine the correct door. We have eight "possibilities" in : each circle, perhaps only one is "correct" per each. The numbers : in the center could be degree measures of the "correct" number. : As to what each "correct" number represents, we have yet to find : out. I think this is the key, or a key, or a part of a larger key. Any way, you just triggered something in my mind here. One glyph says ESE, which means East by South-East. Another glyph is a 32 over a progress bar 7/10 of the way across. 7/10 of 32 is 22.4, and 22.4 degrees clockwise from East (standard compass "0") is almost EXACTY East by South-East! : Then, the specific ideas: As I said above, each central symbol could : represent a number. This could perhaps be used to determine a specific : other number on the edge of the circle. Right now, we know the Mayan one : on the very right. The "ESE" has been speculated to mean east : south east, which could be translated to rotational measurement. ESE would : land right between the 0 and the 6 on the circle, or 112.5° from the top, : -22.5° in standard right-based measurement. This is 15*PI/8 in radians. Negative? Aren't compass degrees measured clockwise from East? : Perhaps the fifth circle is a number in an arabic number system. The sixth : circle appears to be a euclidian coordinate plane, with numbers in each : quadrant. So could this possibly be translated into another compass direction? (I'm not familiar with "euclidian coordinate planes". What are they?)

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	The Case of the Seven Dials	Hamish Sinclair	5/27/01 8:10 a.m.
	Re: The Case of the Seven Dials	Tru7h Seeker	5/27/01 8:46 a.m.
	Re: The Case of the Seven Dials	Rincewind MoG	5/29/01 4:09 p.m.
	Re: The Case of the Seven Dials	ForGreatJustice	5/27/01 9:00 a.m.
	Re: The Case of the Seven Dials	Tru7h Seeker	5/27/01 11:35 a.m.
	Re: The Case of the Seven Dials	The Tiny Toad	5/27/01 12:03 p.m.
	Re: The Case of the Seven Dials	Retarted Monkey Lover	5/27/01 3:41 p.m.
	Re: The Case of the Seven Dials	Locucious	5/27/01 3:45 p.m.
	Re: The Case of the Seven Dials	Durandal1010	5/27/01 4:03 p.m.
	A few insights (good ones, please read!)	Locucious	5/27/01 5:03 p.m.
	Compass Points	Forrest of B.org	5/29/01 9:14 a.m.
	Re: Compass Points	Locucious	5/29/01 5:20 p.m.
	What Claude had to say...	Twizzler	5/27/01 6:16 p.m.
	Re: The Case of the Seven Dials	ForGreatJustice	5/27/01 7:34 p.m.
	Re: The Case of the Seven Dials	Yossarian	5/27/01 8:13 p.m.
	er, i MEANT acg....	Yossarian	5/27/01 8:17 p.m.
	Re: er, i MEANT acg....	ForGreatJustice	5/27/01 8:26 p.m.
	Re: er, i MEANT acg....	Hippieman [B.Org]	5/29/01 8:35 a.m.
	Re: er, i MEANT acg....	Bean	5/29/01 10:45 p.m.
	Re: er, i MEANT acg....	Alexander S7range	5/30/01 11:32 a.m.
	Re: The Case of the Seven Dials	ForGreatJustice	5/27/01 8:23 p.m.
	Whoa...check it out	Yossarian	5/27/01 7:56 p.m.
	Could you please discuss this at the fanfest forum	The Tiny Toad	5/27/01 9:47 p.m.
	Re: Could you please discuss this at the fanfest f	7revor Smith	5/28/01 5:06 a.m.
	Re: Could you please discuss this at the fanfest f	ForGreatJustice	5/28/01 8:45 a.m.
	Re: Could you please discuss this at the fanfest f	Friend of YOUR MOM	5/28/01 9:20 a.m.
	I'm part of BORG too...	Miguelito	5/28/01 9:10 p.m.
	Re: Could you please discuss this at the fanfest f	The Tiny Toad	5/28/01 9:50 a.m.
	Glyphs properties	Some guy	5/28/01 11:33 a.m.
	Numbers....	[Tycho?]	5/28/01 1:56 p.m.
	Re: Numbers....	Retarted Monkey Lover	5/28/01 2:47 p.m.
	113! NT *NM*	ForGreatJustice	5/28/01 2:50 p.m.
	Re: Numbers....	Tycho	5/28/01 3:22 p.m.
	Re: Numbers....	Doctordude	5/28/01 7:07 p.m.
	Re: Numbers....	[Tycho?]	5/29/01 12:34 p.m.
	These glyphs probably ARE the rosetta stone [n/t]	Locucious	5/29/01 5:22 p.m.
	Re: The Case of the Seven Dials	Twizzler	5/28/01 6:32 p.m.
	Not everybody... but I do! :) *NM*	7revor Smith	5/29/01 4:37 a.m.
	Re: The Case of the Seven Dials	[Tycho?]	5/29/01 12:38 p.m.
	Re: The Case of the Seven Dials	Claude Errera	5/29/01 1:11 p.m.
	probe to the core	Tenebrae	5/30/01 1:29 a.m.
	Re: probe to the core	Hamish Sinclair	5/30/01 2:52 a.m.
	the numerical hapenstance	Tenebrae	5/30/01 4:52 a.m.
	Re: probe to the core	Tycho	5/30/01 7:45 a.m.
	Say what?	Soapstone	5/30/01 3:27 p.m.
	Re: Say what?	smilr	6/1/01 11:09 p.m.
	Re: Say what?	Soapstone	6/2/01 9:30 a.m.
	Re: Say what?	Tycho	6/2/01 3:37 p.m.
	Re: Say what?	Forrest of B.org	6/2/01 9:49 a.m.

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