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It took renting a car in England which had license plate GC17HSJ to spot this one. Given that license plate, I really had to look it up.  http://coords.info returned an answer but Cachly said no such cache. I finally spotted the difference. coord.info/GC17HSJ is being mapped to GC17H5J since S is one of L O U I S letters not used in GC codes. I wonder if Cachly should make a similar mapping? A minor issue but might help with transcription errors. 

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On 26/09/2017 at 10:29 AM, MrGigabyte said:

Base 31.   These letters were left out to prevent certain offensive words from ever appearing in the GC code

 

U might be for that reason, L O I S are easily confused with other letters.

p.s. Interesting thread here https://forums.geocaching.com/GC/index.php?/topic/341449-3-million/

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On 9/28/2017 at 11:48 AM, barefootguru said:

U might be for that reason, L O I S are easily confused with other letters.

p.s. Interesting thread here https://forums.geocaching.com/GC/index.php?/topic/341449-3-million/

I thought they were all excluded to prevent confusion with other characters.

L not in caps with 1, O with zero, U with V, I with 1 and S with 5

All very well explained in this cache description

GC5KW17

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