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  • Telegraphs
  • Ohlsen Telegraph
  • 00 What is the Ohlsen Telegraph?

00 What is the Ohlsen Telegraph?

At the beginning of the 19th century, a six-key telegraph was introduced by the Norwegian Captain Ohlsen.

The position of the flaps was added together to form a number that represented a specific entry in the code book:

  • GC Wizard for Beginners
    • 01 What is the GC Wizard?
    • 02 What permissions does GC Wizard need?
    • 03 Installing GC Wizard
    • 04 How to navigate in the App?
    • 05 How do I enter coordinates?
    • 06 Viewing, Using, and Saving Results
    • How do I use the Clipboard Editor?
  • General Settings
    • 03 What general settings do I have available?
    • 04 What settings do I have regarding coordinates?
    • 05 Which settings are possible for tools?
    • How can I save, load, or restore settings?
  • Tools
    • Coordinate calculation
      • Waypoint Projection
        • 01 How does waypoint projection (bearing) work - for geodesic/orthodrome and loxodrome/rhumb line?
      • Distance and Bearing
        • 01 How does distance and bearing work - for geodesic/orthodrome and loxodrome/rhumb line?
      • Format Converter
        • 01 How does the format converter work?
      • Map View
        • 01 How does the Map View work?
      • Variable Coordinate
        • 01 Why is there a Variable Coordinate function?
        • 02 How can I enter or insert a formula?
        • 03 How do I enter the value range?
        • 04 How are formulas interpreted?
        • 05 How are non-three-digit milliminutes interpreted in DMM format?
        • 06 Can I also take a bearing / projection?
      • DMM Offset
        • 01 How does DMM Offset work?
      • Coordinate Measurement
        • 01 How do I measure my current position?
      • Center Point of Two Coordinates
        • 01 How does Center Point of Two Coordinates work?
      • Centroid (Arithmetic Mean)
        • 01 How does Centroid (Arithmetic Mean) work?
      • Centroid (Center of Gravity)
        • 01 How does Centroid (Center of Gravity) work?
      • Center Point of Three Coordinates
        • 01 How does Center Point of three coordinates work?
      • Segment Line
        • 01 How do I calculate line segments?
      • Segment Bearings
        • 01 How do I calculate angle sections?
      • Cross Bearing
        • 01 How does cross bearing work?
      • Intersection of two Lines (Bearings)
        • 01 How does an intersection of two lines work?
      • Intersection of Line from Four Points
        • 01 How does an intersection of two lines of four points work?
      • Intersection of Line and Circle
        • 01 How does intersection of line and circle work?
      • Intersection of Two Circles
        • 01 How does intersection of two circles work?
      • Intersection of Three Circles
        • 01 How does intersection of three circles work?
      • Antipode
        • 01 How does Antipode work?
      • Intersection
        • 01 How does the Intersection work?
      • Resection
        • 01 How does the Resection work?
      • Equilateral Triangle
        • 01 How does the equilateral triangle work?
      • Elipsoid/Date Converter
        • 01 How does the Elipsoid/Date Converter work?
      • 01 Which tools are available for the coordinate calculation?
      • 02 How do the coordinate calculations work?
      • 03 Why does the coordinate parser exist internally?
    • Encryption and Codes
      • Bundeswehr
        • 00 What is a Talking Board?
        • 01 What is authentication?
        • 01 What is authentication?
        • 02 What is Obfuscation?
        • 02 What is obfuscation?
        • 03 What does GC Wizard provides with a Bundeswehr Talking Board?
        • 03 Which functions does the GC Wizard provide for the Bundeswehr Talkingboard?
        • 04 How does GC Wizard obfuscate with the Bundeswehr Talking Board
        • 04 Obfuscate with the Bundeswehr Talkingboard
        • 05 Authentication with the Bundeswehr Talkingboard
        • 05 How does GC Wizard authenticate with the Bundeswehr Talking Board
      • Ciphers
        • Abaddon Code
          • 01 What is the Abaddon Cipher?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Abaddon Cipher?
        • ADFG(V)X
          • 01 What is the ADFG(V)X Cipher?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the ADFG(V)X Cipher?
        • Affine Cipher
          • 01 What is the Affine Cipher?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Affine cipher?
        • AMSCO Cipher
          • 01 What ist the AMSCO Cipher?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the AMSCO Cipher?
        • Atbash
          • 01 What is the Atbash Cipher?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Atbash Cipher?
        • Battleship Code
          • 00 What is the Battleship Code?
          • 01 How does the GC Wizard decrypt or encrypt with the Battleship Code?
        • Ave Maria Cipher
          • 00 What is the Ave Maria Cipher
        • Bacon Cipher
          • 01 What is the Bacon Cipher?
          • 02 Which tools does GC Wizard offer for Bacon Cipher?
          • 03 How does the GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Bacon Cipher?
          • 04 How does GC Wizard analyse texts for the bacon cipher?
        • Bifid Cipher
          • 01 What is the Bifid Cipher?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Bifid Cipher?
        • Book Cipher
          • How does the GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt with a Book Cipher?
        • Braille
          • 01 What is Braille?
          • 02 Which functions does the GC Wizard offer for dealing with Braille?
          • 03 How does the graphical decoding or encryption work?
        • Caesar Cipher
          • 01 What is the Caesar Cipher?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypto or decrypt using the Caesar Cipher?
        • Chao Cipher
          • 01 What is the Chao Cipher?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Chao Cipher?
        • Cipher Disk
          • 01 What is a Cipher disk?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using a Cipher disk?
        • Enigma
          • 01 What is the Enigma?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Enigma?
        • Fox Code
          • 01 What is the Fox Code?
          • 02 How does the GC Wizard decrypt or encrypt with the Fox Code?
        • Hill Cypher
          • How does the GC Wizard decrypt or encrypt with the Hill cipher?
          • What is the Hill Cypher?
        • Homophone Cipher
          • 01 What is the Homophone Cipher?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Homophone Cipher?
        • Houdini Code
          • 01 What is the Houdini Code?
        • Kamasutra
          • 01 What is the Kamasutra Cipher?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypto using the Kamasutra Cipher?
        • Major System Code
          • How does the GC Wizard encodes according to the Major System?
          • What is the major system or major system code?
        • Mexican Army Cipher Wheel
          • 01 What is the Mexican Army Cipher Wheel?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Mexican Army Cipher Wheel?
        • Morbit
          • 00 What is Morbit?
          • 01 How does the GC Wizard decrypt or encrypt with the Morbit cipher?
        • Morse Code
          • 01 What is the Morse Code?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encode or decode using Morse Code?
        • Navajo
          • 01 What is the Navajo Code?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard decrypt or encrypt Navajo?
        • One-Time Pad
          • 01 What is an One-Time Pad?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using an One-Time Pad?
        • Playfair Cipher
          • 01 What is the Playfair Cipher?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Playfair Cipher?
        • Pollux
          • 00 What is Pollux?
          • 01 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Pollux Cipher?
        • Polybios Square
          • 01 What is the Polybios Square?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Polybios Square?
        • Rabbit Cipher
          • 00 What is the Rabbit cipher?
          • 01 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt with the Rabbit cipher?
        • Ragbaby Cipher
          • How does the GC Wizard decrypt or encrypt with the Ragbaby cipher?
          • What is the Ragbaby Cipher?
        • Railfence Cipher
          • 01 What is the Railfence Cipher?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Railfence Cipher?
        • RC4 Encyrption
          • 01 What is RC4?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard enrypt or decrypt using RC4?
        • Rotation
          • 01 What is Rotation?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using Rotation?
          • 03 What is ROT-13?
          • 04 What is ROT-5?
          • 05 What is ROT-18?
          • 06 What is ROT-47?
        • RSA
          • 01 What is RSA?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using RSA?
          • 03 How can the public key "e" be verified with the prime numbers "p" and "q"?
          • 04 How can the private key "d" be verified with the prime numbers "p" and "q"?
          • 05 How can the private key "d" be calculated with the public key "e" and the prime numbers "p" and "q"?
          • 06 How is N calculated?
          • 07 How is ϕ calculated?
        • Scytale
          • 01 What is a Scytale?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using a Scytale?
        • Solitaire Cipher
          • 01 What is the Solitaire Cipher?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Solitaire Cipher?
        • Slash & Pipe Code
          • How does the GC Wizard decrypt or encrypt with the slash & pipe code?
          • What is the Slash & Pipe code?
        • Straddling Checkerboard
          • 01 What is the Straddling Checkerboard?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Straddling Checkerboard?
        • Tap Code
          • 01 What is the Tap Code?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Tap Code?
        • Tapir Substitution Cipher
          • 01 What is the TAPIR Substitution Cipher?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the TAPIR Substitution?
        • TomTom Code
          • 01 What is the TomTom Code?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encode or decode using TomTom Code?
        • Trifid
          • 01 What is the Trifid Cipher?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Trifid Cipher?
        • Upside Down/rotate flip text
          • What does the “Upside Down Text” function do?
        • Vigenère Cipher
          • Gronsfeld Cipher
            • 01 What is the Gronsfeld Cipher?
            • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Gronsfeld Cipher?
          • Porta Cipher
            • How does the GC Wizard decrypt or encrypt with the Porta Cipher?
            • What is the Porta Cipher?
          • Trithemius Cipher
            • 01 What is the Trithemius Cipher?
            • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Trithemius Cipher?
          • 01 What is the Vigenère Cipher?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Vigenère Cipher?
          • 03 How can I crack a Vigenère encryption?
          • 04 How does GC Wizard supports to break a Vigenère Cipher?
      • Codes
        • ALGOL
          • 00 What is the ALGOL Punchtape Code?
        • Alphabet Values
          • 01 How does GC Wizard encode and decode using Alphabet/letter values?
        • ASCII and Unicode (UTF-8)
          • 01 What is the ASCII-Code?
          • 02 What is Unicode?
          • 03 What is UTF-8?
          • 04 How does GC Wizard converts ASCII and Unicode/UTF-8?
        • Base Code
          • 01 What are Base encodings?
          • 02 What is the Base16 encoding?
          • 03 What is the Base32 encoding?
          • 04 What is the Base64 encoding?
          • 05 What is the Base58 Encoding?
          • 05 What ist the Base85 encoding?
          • 07 What is the Base91 Encoding?
          • 08 What is the Base122 Encoding?
        • BCD Code
          • 01 What are BCD encodings?
          • 02 Which BCD encodings does the GC Wizard know?
          • 03 How does the GC Wizard encode and decode using BCD encodings?
        • CCITT
          • Punchtape/Teletypewriter
            • 01 What are Punchtapes?
            • 02 How does the GC Wizard decrypt or encrypt with punched tape?
          • CCITT ITA-1 - Baudot Code
            • 01 What is the Baudot Code?
            • 02 What is the CCITT-1 Code?
            • 03 How does GC Wizard encode and decode using the CCITT-1 Code?
          • CCITT ITA-2 - Baudot Murray Code
            • 01 What is the Baudot-Murray-Code?
            • 02 What is the CCITT-2 Code?
            • 03 How does GC Wizard encode and decode using the CCITT-2 Code?
          • 01 What is the CCITT – Comité Consultatif International Télégraphique et Téléphonique or ITU - International Telecommunication Union?
          • 02 What is the CCITT ITA-1 Code?
          • 03 What is the CCITT ITA-2 Code?
          • 04 What is the International Telegraph Alphabet No. 3?
          • 05 What is the International Telegraph Alphabet No. 4?
          • 06 What is the International Alphabet No. 5?
          • 07 What is the International Reference Alphabet?
          • 08 What is CCIR 476?
          • 09 How does the GC Wizard decrypt/encrypt with CCITT ITA-1 ITA-2 ITA-3 ITA-5 IA-5 CCIR 476?
        • Gray Code
          • 01 What is the Gray Code?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encode and decode using the Gray Code?
        • ILLIAC
          • 00 What is ILLIAC?
        • Kenny's Code
          • 01 What is Kenny's Code?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using Kenny's Code?
        • Pokemon
          • 00 What is the Pokémon Code?
          • 01 How does the GC Wizard decrypt/encrypt with the Pokemon Code?
        • Predator
          • 00 What is Predator?
          • 01 What functions does GC Wizard provide for decryption and encryption with Predator?
          • 02 How does Predator's graphical decryption and encryption work?
        • TTS
          • 00 What is TTS?
          • How does GC Wizard decode/encode with Linotype Teletypesetter?
        • UFI
          • 00 What is the UFI – Unique Formula Identifier?
          • 01 How does the GC Wizard decodes or encodes an UFI - Unique Formula Identifier?
        • UPC
          • 01 How does the GC Wizard decrypt or encrypt a Universal Product Code?
        • Z22
          • 01 What is the Z22 Code?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encode and decode using the Z22 Code?
        • ZC1
          • 00 What is ZC1 - Zentralcode 1?
      • Esoteric Programming Languages
        • Beatnik
          • 01 What is the esoteric programming language Beatnik?
          • 02 How does the GC Wizard interpret a Beatnik-Program?
          • 03 How does the GC Wizard generate a Beatnik-Program?
          • 04 What is the structure of a Beatnik-Program?
        • Befunge
          • 00 What is Befunge 93?
          • 00 What is Befunge?
          • 01 How does GC Wizard interpret and generate Befunge programs?
          • 01 How does GC Wizard work with Befunge 93?
        • Brainf** and trivial Substitutions
          • 01 What is the esoteric programming language Brainf**k?
          • 02 How does the GC Wizard interpret a Brainf**k program?
          • 03 How does the GC Wizard generate a Brainf**k program?
          • 04 How is a Brainf**k program structured?
        • Chef
          • 01 What is the esoteric programming language Chef?
          • 02 How does the GC Wizard interpret a Chef Program?
          • 03 How does the GC Wizard generate a Chef-Program?
          • 04 What is the structure of a Chef-Program?
          • 05 What are common errors when writing a Chef-Program?
        • Cow
          • 01 What is the esoteric programming language Cow?
          • 02 How does the GC Wizard interpret a Cow program?
          • 03 How does the GC Wizard generate a Cow program?
          • 04 How is a Cow program structured?
        • Deadfish
          • 01 What is the esoteric programming language Deadfish?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard interprets a Deadfish program?
          • 03 How does GC Wizard generates a Deadfish program?
          • 04 How is a Deadfish program structured?
        • Hohoho!
          • 00 What is Hohoho!?
        • Karel the Robot
          • 01 What is Karel the Robot?
          • 02 How does the GC Wizard interpret a Karel the Robot program?
          • 03 How does the GC Wizard generate a Karel the Robot program?
          • 04 Which language elements of Karel the Robot does GC Wizard understand?
        • Malbolge
          • 01 What is the esoteric programming language Malbolge?
          • 02 How does the GC Wizard interpret a Malbolge program?
          • 03 How does the GC Wizard generate a Malbolge program?
          • 04 How is a Malbolge program structured?
        • Ook
          • 01 What is the esoteric language Ook!?
          • 02 How does GC-Wizard interpret an Ook!-Program?
          • 03 How does GC-Wizard generate an Ook!-Program?
          • 04 What is the syntax of an Ook! programme?
        • Piet
          • 00 What is Piet?
          • 01 How does GC Wizard interpret or generate Piet programs?
        • Whitespace
          • 01 What is the esoteric programming language Whitespace?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard interpret a Whitespace program?
          • 03 How does GC Wizard generate a Whitespace program?
          • 04 How is a Whitespace program structured?
        • 01 What are Esoteric Programming Languages?
      • Language games
        • Chicken Language
          • 01 What is Chicken Language?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encode or decode using Chicken Language?
        • Duck Speak
          • What is Duck Speak?
        • Judoon
          • How does GC Wizard decrypt and encrypt with Judoon?
          • What is Judoon?
        • Pig Latin
          • 01 What is Pig Latin?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encode or decode using Pig Latin?
        • Robber Language
          • 01 What is Robber Language?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encode or decode using the Robber Language?
        • Spoon Language
          • 01 What is the Spoon Language?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encode or decode using the Spoon Language?
        • 01 What are Language games?
      • Miscellaneous
        • Beghilos
          • 01 What is Beghilos?
          • 02 How does the GC Wizard decrypt or encrypt Beghilos?
        • Burrows-Wheeler Transformation
          • 01 What is the Burrows-Wheeler Transformation?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Burrows-Wheeler Transformation?
        • Enclosed Areas
          • 01 What are Enclosed Areas?
          • 02 How do you use Enclosed Areas?
        • Gade
          • 01 What does Gade mean?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard calculate a Gade?
        • GC-Code
          • 01 What is the GeoCache-Code?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard encode or decode a GeoCache Code?
        • Hashes
          • 01 What are Hashes?
          • 02 What is MD2?
          • 03 What is MD4 ?
          • 04 What is MD5?
          • 05 What is SHA?
          • 06 What is SHA-1?
          • 07 What is SHA-2?
          • 08 What is SHA-3?
          • 09 What is Keccak?
          • 10 What is BLAKE2b?
          • 11 What is RIPEMD?
          • 12 What is Tiger?
          • 13 What is Whirlpool?
          • 14 Can Hashes be "decrypted"?
          • 15 How does GC Wizard calculate Hashes?
        • Letter Count
          • 00 What does the Letter Count function do?
        • Numeral Words
          • 01 What does the function "Numeral Words" do?
          • 02 What does the function “Number words: Text search” do ?
          • 03 What does the function "Numeral Words: Overview" do?
          • 04 What does the function "Numbers to Numeral Words" do?
        • Replacements
          • 01 How do you use Replacements?
        • Reverse
          • 01 What does the function "Reverse" do?
        • Roman Numbers
          • 01 What are Roman Numbers?
          • 02 How does the GC Wizard convert Roman Numbers?
          • 03 How does GC Wizard searches Roman Numbers within a text - Chronogramm?
        • Shadok Numbers
          • 01 What are Shadok Numbers?
          • 02 What functions does the Shadok Numbers menu provide?
          • 03 How are Shadok numbers converted?
        • Up-Down-Left-Right
          • 01 What does the Up-Down-Left-Right function offer?
      • Wherigo Tools
        • 00 Wherigo cartridges - a look behind the scenes
        • 01 Wherigo-Cartridges – the file formats
        • 02 Wherigo Cartridges - the structure of a cartridge
        • 03 Wherigo Cartridge - the structure of a Wherigo LUA File
        • 04 What does the GC Wizard offer for the analysis of Wherigo cartridges?
        • 05 Urwigo Hash Breaker
        • 06 Text Deobfuscator
        • 07 Wherigo Analyze
        • 08 And now - how do I obfuscate the final zone?
      • 00 What does the "Encryption and codes" menu offer?
      • 01 What does the "Encryption and codes" menu offer?
      • 02 What is symmetric encryption?
      • 03 What is asymmetric encryption?
      • 04 What is Transposition?
      • 05 What is Substitution?
      • 06 What is a Stream cipher?
      • 07 What is steganography?
    • Formula Solver
      • 01 How can I create formula groups?
      • 02 How can I create formulas?
      • 03 How do I enter variables and values?
      • 04 Which functions, operators and constants are available?
      • 05 How are formulas interpreted?
      • 06 How can I use subformulas?
      • 07 How do I use formulas I have already created?
      • 08 How do I delete, edit or copy formulas?
      • 09 How can I export a formula group?
    • Games
      • Billard Balls
        • Billard Balls
      • Bowling
        • 00 What does the Bowling function do?
      • Conway's Game of Life
        • 00 What is Conway's Game of Life?
        • 01 What features does the GC Wizard provide for Conway's Game of Life?
      • Logical Helper
        • How does GC Wizard's Logical Helper work?
        • What are Logicals?
      • Nonogram
        • 00 What are Nonograms?
        • 00 What is a Nonogram?
        • 01 How does GC Wizard help to solve or create a Nonogram?
      • Number Pyramid Solver
        • 00 What is a number pyramid?
        • 01 How does GC Wizard solves a Number Pyramid?
      • Randomizer
        • What does the Randomizer do?
      • Scrabble
        • 01 What can Scrabble do?
        • 02 How are the values calculated?
        • 03 How are the frequencies calculated?
      • Sudoku Solver
        • 01 How does the Sudoku solver work?
      • Square paper
        • 00 What is Grid/Squared Paper?
      • The Settlers of Catan
        • What does "The Settlers of Catan - Number Chips" do?
      • Towers of Hanoi
        • What are the Towers of Hanoi?
        • What function does the GC Wizard offer for the towers of Hanoi?
      • Word Search (Letter Grid)
        • 00 What does the "Word Search (Letter Grid)" do?
        • 00 What is Word Search/Letter Grid?
        • 01 How does the Word Search/Letter Grid work?
      • 01 What games are implemented?
    • General Code Solver
      • 00 What are General Codesolvers?
      • 01 How does the Substitution Breaker work?
      • 02 How does the Hash-Search work?
      • 03 How does the multi decoder work?
      • 04 How does the Vigenère Code Breaker work?
    • Images and Files
      • Animated Images
        • 01 What does the Animated Images function do?
      • Animated Images Morse Code
        • 01 What does the Animated Images Morse Code function do?
      • Binary Code to image / QR code
        • 01 What does the binary code to image/QR code function do?
      • Color Corrections
        • 01 What does the colour corrections function do?
      • Exif and Metadata Viewer
        • 01 What does the Exif and Metadata Viewer function do?
      • Hex Viewer
        • 01 What does the Hex Viewer function do?
      • Hexadecimal numbers to file
        • 01 What does the function Hexadecimal Numbers to File do?
      • Hidden data
        • 01 What does the Hidden Data function do?
      • LSB Steganography
        • 01 What does the LSB Steganography function do?
      • MagicEye
        • 00 What are Magic Eye images?
        • 01 How does GC Wizard assist with Magic Eye images?
      • Mirror and Rotate
        • 00 What does Flip and Rotate do?
      • QR Code
        • 01 What does the QR Code function do?
      • Stretch and Shrink
        • 00 What does Stretch and Shrink do?
      • Visual Cryprography
        • 01 What does the Visual Cryptography function do?
      • Waveform
        • 00 What is a Waveform?
        • 01 What is Pulse-Code-Modulation - PCM?
        • 02 How to calculate and draw the Waveform?
        • 03 How does GC Wizard deals with Waveforms?
    • Science and Technology
      • Alcohol Mass
        • 01 What is the Alcohol Mass?
        • 02 What does the alcohol mass function do?
      • Apparent Temperature
        • Heat Index
          • 01 What is the Heat Index?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard calculates the Heat Index?
        • Humidex
          • 01 What is the Humidex?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard calculates the Humidex?
        • Summer Simmer Index
          • 01 What is the Summer Simmer Index?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard calculates the Summer Simmer Index?
        • Wet Bulb Temperature
          • 01 How does the GC Wizard calculate the Wet Bulb Temperature?
          • 01 What is the Wet Bulb Temperature?
        • Wet Bulb Globe Temperature
          • 00 What is the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature Index - WBGT Index?
        • Windchill
          • 01 What is Windchill?
          • 02 How does GC Wizard calculates the Windchill?
        • 01 What are apparent temperatures?
      • Astronomy
        • Right ascension - Time to Degree
          • 00 What is the Equatorial Coordinate System?
          • 01 What is the vernal equinox?
          • 02 What is the right ascension?
          • 03 What is the time measure or hour measure?
          • 04 What does the Right Ascension by Degree function do?
        • IAU Constellations
          • 00 What is the list of constellations?
          • 01 Which functions does the GC Wizard offer for constellations?
        • 01 Which functions fall under the field of astronomy?
        • 02 What calculations take place at sunrise/sunset?
        • 03 What calculations take place for the position of the sun?
        • 04 What calculations take place at moonrise/moonset?
        • 05 What calculations take place on the position and phase of the moon?
        • 06 How do I calculate Easter Sunday in a given year?
        • 07 How do I show the years of a particular Easter Sunday (Month/Day)?
        • 08 How do I show the beginning of the season as well as solar distances?
        • 09 What does the Shadow Length function do?
      • Binary Numbers
        • 01 How can I decode/encode binary numbers?
      • Blood Alcohol Content (BAC)
        • 01 What is the blood alcohol content?
        • 02 How does the GC Wizard calculate the blood alcohol content?
      • Circle Number Pi
        • 00 What is π?
        • 01 Which functions are provided for circle number pi (π=3.1415926...)?
        • 02 How do I determine the nth decimal place?
        • 03 How do I display the desired Range?
        • 04 How do I search for occurrences of a sequence of digits?
      • Checkdigits
        • 00 What are Check Digits?
        • 01 Which check digits does GC Wizard support?
        • 02 What tools does the GC Wizard provide for handling check digits?
        • Credit card numbers - Check digit tools
        • EAN - Check digit tools
        • Euro banknote numbers - Check digit tools
        • IBAN - Check digit tools
        • IMEI – Check digit tools
        • ISBN - Check digit tools
        • TIN - Check digit tools
        • UIC - Check digit tools
      • Colors
        • 01 How can I convert different color spaces?
      • Combinatorics
        • 01 Which functions are available in the combinatorics section?
        • 02 What is listed in the Combination function?
        • 03 What is listed in the Permutation function?
        • 04 What is listed in the permuted combinations function?
      • Complex numbers
        • 01 What are complex numbers?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard calculate with complex numbers?
      • Countries/Nations
        • 01 What does the function Countries/Nations do?
      • Cross Sum/Digit Sum
        • 01 Which functions are available in the Cross sums area?
        • 02 How do I find the sum of the digits and its variants?
        • 03 How do I find numbers of a range that have a certain sum of digits?
        • 04 How do I find numbers of a range that have a certain iterated sum of digits?
        • 05 How do I find the frequency of cross sums in a range?
        • 06 How do I find the frequency of iterated cross sums in a range?
      • Date and Time functions
        • 01 Which calculations are mapped under date and time functions?
        • 02 How is the number of days calculated?
        • 03 How does the time calculator work?
        • 04 How does the weekday calculator work?
        • 05 What does Maya Calendar do?
        • 06 What calculations can be made with the Mayan calendar?
        • 07 What does Calendar do?
        • 08 What does the function Day of the year do?
        • 09 What does the Function UNIX Time do?
        • 10 What does the function EXCEL Time do?
      • Decabit
        • 01 What is Decabit
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encode and decode using the Decabit Code?
      • Divisors of a Number
        • 01 What does the function divisor of a number do?
      • DNA/mRNA
        • 01 What are the functions of DNA/mRNA?
        • 02 How can I decode/encode a nucleotide sequence?
        • 03 How can I decode/encode Amino acid Symbols?
        • 04 How can I display the Amino acid overview?
      • DTMF
        • 01 What is DTMF?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encode/decode DTMF?
      • Euler's number e
        • 01 What is Euler's number e?
        • 02 Which functions are provided for Eulers number e (e = 2.7182818...)?
        • 03 How do I determine the nth decimal place?
        • 04 How do I display the desired Range?
        • 05 How do I search for occurrences of a sequence of digits?
      • Golden ratio Phi
        • 00 What is the Golden Ration ??
        • 01 Which functions are provided for Golden ratio Phi (Φ=1.6180339...)?
        • 02 How do I determine the nth decimal place?
        • 03 How do I display the desired Range?
        • 04 How do I search for occurrences of a sequence of digits?
      • Greatest common divisor, least common multiplier
        • 00 What is the GCD- greatest common divisor - of two numbers?
        • 01 How does GC Wizard calculates the GCD - greatest common divisor - of two numbers?
        • 02 What is the LCM- least common multiple - of two numbers?
        • 03 How does the GC Wizard calculate the kgV - least common multiple - of two numbers?
      • Guitar Tabs
        • 00 What does the Guitar Tabs function do?
      • Hebrew Numbersystem
        • 00 What is the Hebrew Numbersystem or Hebrew numeral script?
        • 01 How does the GC Wizard decrypt or encrypt with the Hebrew Numbersystem?
      • Hexadecimal Numbers
        • 01 How can I decode/encrypt hexadecimal numbers?
      • IATA/ICAO Codes/Airfield Codes
        • 01 What are IATA/ICAO Codes?
        • 02 Which functions does the GC Wizard provide for IATA and ICAO codes?
      • Ice Codes
        • 01 What are Ice condition codes?
        • 02 Which ice (condition) codes does GC Wizard know?
        • 03 What does the Baltic Sea Ice Code of 1980 describe?
        • 04 What does Regulation (EC) No. 416/2007 describe for inland navigation ?
        • 05 What decribes the Ice Nomenclature WMO No. 259?
        • 06 What shows the GC Wizard?
      • IEEE754 Floating point numbers
        • 00 What are IEEE 754 floating point numbers?
        • 01 How does the GC Wizard convert IEE-754 Floating Point numbers into binary numbers?
      • Interest and Interest Rates
        • 00 What does the Compound Interest function do?
      • IP Codes
        • What are IP Codes and how does it work?
      • Irrational Numbers
        • 01 What are Irrational Numbers?
        • 02 What are the functions for irrational numbers?
      • Keyboard
        • 01 What does the Keyboard menu offer?
        • 02 What are Keyboard Layouts?
        • 03 How does GC Wizard convert between keyboard layouts?
        • 04 How does GC Wizard encrypt keyboard numbers with special characters?
      • Mathmatical Constants
        • 00 What does the Mathematical constants function do?
      • Milesian Numbersystem
        • 00 What is the Milesian Numbersystem?
        • 01 How does the GC Wizard decrypt or encrypt with the Milesian Numbersystem?
      • Music Notes
        • 00 What does the Music Notes function do?
      • Number Sequences
        • 01 What are Number Sequences?
        • 02 Which Number Sequences are supported by GC Wizard?
        • 02.1 What does the function "Calculate the nth number" do?
        • 02.2 What does the function "List numbers in an index range" do?
        • 02.3 What does the function "Check if a number belongs to the number sequence" do?
        • 02.4 What does the function "Check whether a sequence of digits belongs to a number in the number sequence" do?
        • 02.5 What does the function "List numbers with a certain number of digits" do?
        • 03 What calculations can be performed on the number sequences?
        • 04 What is the Fermat Sequence?
        • 05 What is the Mersenne Sequence?
        • 06 What is the Mersenne-like Sequence including the Fermat Numbers?
        • 07 What is the Lucas Sequence?
        • 08 What is the Pell Sequence?
        • 09 What is the Jacobsthal Sequence?
        • 10 What is the Pell-Lucas Sequence?
        • 11 What is the Jacobsthal-Lucas Sequence?
        • 12 What is the Catalan Sequence?
        • 13 What is the Recamán Sequence?
        • 14 What is the Fibonacci Sequence?
        • 15 What is Factorial?
        • 16 What are Mersenne Primes?
        • 17 What are Mersenne Exponents?
        • 18 What are Perfect Numbers?
        • 19 What are Superperfect Numbers?
        • 20 What are Pseudoperfect Numbers?
        • 21 What are Weird Numbers?
        • 22 What are Sublime Numbers?
        • 23 What is the Jacobsthal-Oblong Sequence?
        • 24 What is the Bell Sequence?
        • 25 What is the "Lychrel-Sequence"?
        • 26 What are "permutable primes"?
        • 27 What are "Happy Numbers"?
        • 28 What are "Lucky Numbers"?
        • 29 What are Busy Beaver?
      • Paper formats
        • Paper formats
      • Positional Numeral Systems - Radix
        • 00 What does radix or base or root mean?
        • 01 What are Numeral Systems?
        • 02 How does the GC Wizard support using Numeral Systems?
      • Periodic Table of the Elements
        • 01 What are the functions in the periodic table of the elements?
        • 02 What information can I find in the data view?
        • 03 How does the GC Wizard convert atomic numbers into chemical symbols?
      • Phone Keys (Vanity)
        • 01 What does Phone keys (Vanity) means?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard support calculating with Vanity?
      • Physical Constants
        • 00 What does the Physical constants function do?
      • Piano key frequencies
        • 01 What are piano keys frequencies - Frequencies of equal temperament?
        • 02 What functions does GC Wizard provide for Piano keys - frequencies?
      • Postcode
        • How does the GC Wizard decrypt/encrypt the postcode/destination code?
        • What is the Postcode?
      • Prime Numbers
        • 01 What are Prime numbers?
        • 02 How do I determine the nth prime number?
        • 03 How do I check for a prime number?
        • 04 How do I find the closest prime number?
        • 05 How do I find the position of a prime number?
        • 06 How do I decompose a number into prime numbers?
      • Projectiles/ Bullets
        • 01 How do I calculate the energy, mass or velocity of a projectile?
      • Quadratic equation
        • 01 What are Quadratic Equations?
        • 02 How does the GC Wizard calculate with quadratic equations?
      • RAL Color Codes
        • 01 What does the function RAL color codes?
      • Recycling Codes
        • 01 What are Recycling Codes?
        • 02 What functions does the GC Wizard offer for Recycling Codes?
      • Resistor
        • 01 What are Resistor Color Codes?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard support calculating with Resistor Codes?
        • 03 What is the EIA-96 code?
      • Segment Display
        • 01 What are Segment Displays?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encode and decode using Segment Displays?
      • Silver ratio
        • 00 What is the Silver ratio?
      • Sorting
        • Sorting of Characters, Words or Lines
      • Spelling Alphabets
        • 00 What are Spelling alphabets?
        • 01 Which spelling Alphabets does GC Wizard know?
        • 02 Which functions does GC Wizard offer for handling Spelling Alphabets?
        • 03 List of Spelling Alphabets
        • 04 Decoding and encoding with Spelling Alphabets
      • Telegraphs
        • Punchtape
          • 00 What are Punch tapes?
          • 01 How does GC Wizard decrypt/encrypt with punched tape?
        • Chappe Telegraph
          • 00 What is the Chappe Telegraph?
        • Edelcrantz Telegraph
          • 01 What is the Edelcrantz Telegraph?
        • Gauss Weber Telegraph
          • 00 What is the Gauss Weber Telegraph?
          • 01 Gauss Weber telegraph codes
          • 02 How does the GC Wizard decrypt or encrypt with the Gauss-Weber telegraph code?
        • Murray Telegraph
          • 01 What is the Murray Telegraph?
        • Ohlsen Telegraph
          • 00 What is the Ohlsen Telegraph?
        • Pasley Telegraph
          • 00 What is the Pasley Telegraph?
          • 01 How does the GC Wizard decrypt/encrypt with the Pasley Telegraph?
        • Popham Telegraph
          • 00 What is the Popham Telegraph?
          • 01 How does the GC Wizard decrypt/encrypt with the Popham Telegraph?
        • Prussian optical Telegraph (Germany/Prussia)
          • What is the Prussian optical Telegraph (Germany/Prussia) and how does this function work?
        • Schilling Canstatt Telegraph
          • 00 What is the Schilling-Cannstatt Telegraph?
          • 01 What is the Schilling-Canstatt telegraph?
          • 02 How does the GC Wizard decrypt or encrypt with the Schilling-Canstatt telegraph code?
        • Steinheil Telegraph
          • How does the GC Wizard decrypt/encrypt with the Steinheil Telegraph?
          • What is the Steinheil Telegraph?
        • Semaphore
          • 00 What is the winker alphabet (semaphore)?
        • Wheatstone Cooke Needle Telegraph
          • 00 What is the Wheatstone Cooke Telegraph?
        • Wig Wag Flags
          • 00 What is Wig Wag?
        • 00 What functions does the "Telegraph" menu offer?
      • UIC Wagon Codes
        • 00 What is the UIC - International Union of Railways?
        • 01 What is the UIC Wagon Code?
        • 02 What is the Indication of interoperability capacity?
        • 03 What is the UIC country code?
        • 04 What is the UIC Vehicle type?
        • 05 What is the UIC identification marking for tractive stock?
        • 06 UIC classification of goods wagons
        • 07 UIC classification of railway coaches
        • 08 What is the UIC serial number?
        • 09 What is the UIC check digit?
        • 10 What tools does GC Wizard have for handling an UIC Wagon Code?
        • 11 What calculations does the GC Wizard perform with an UIC Wagon Code?
        • 12 How does the GC Wizard decode an UIC Wagon Code?
        • 13 How does the GC Wizard display the vehicle keepers of rail vehicles?
        • 14 How does the GC Wizard display the UIC Country code of rail vehicles?
        • 15 How does the GC Wizard decode the UIC Freight Wagon Classification Code?
        • 16 How does the GC Wizard decode the Passenger Code Classification Letter Code?
      • Universal Product Code (UPC)
        • 00 What is the UPC - Universal Product Code?
      • Unit Converter
        • 01 How do I convert different units?
      • Weather Symbols
        • 00 What does the Weather Symbols function do?
      • Wind Force (Beaufort)
        • 01 What is Windspeed?
        • 02 What is Windforce/Beaufort?
        • 03 How does GC Wizard supports calculating with Windspeed and Windforce?
      • 00 What does the "Science and Technology" menu offer?
      • 00 What does the "Science and Technology" menu offer?
    • Symboltables
      • Babylonian numbers
        • 01 What are Babylonian Numbers?
        • 02 What functions does Babylonian Numbers offer?
        • 03 How are Babylonian numbers decoded or encoded?
      • Chain of Death
        • 01 What ist the "Direction Code"?
        • 02 What is the "Pair-Code"?
      • Cistercian Numbers
        • 01 What functions are provided by Cistercian Numbers?
        • 02 What are Cistercian numbers?
        • 03 How does GC Wizard decode and encode Cistercian Numbers?
      • Maya
        • 01 What functions are provided by Mayan Numbers?
        • 02 What is the Mayan numeral script?
        • 03 How are Maya numbers decoded or encoded?
      • Nyctography
        • 01 What is Nyctography?
      • Zamonian Numbers
        • 01 What does the Zamonian Numbers function do?
      • 01 Which symbol tables are available?
      • 02 How do I use the symbol tables?
      • 03 Searching for Symbols with an example
      • 04 What does the Symbol Replacer do?
    • Miscellaneous Tools
      • GCW Script
        • Programming Manual
          • Variables and Data types
            • Data types
            • Internal Register
            • Variables
          • Operators
            • Operators
          • Language
            • Commands
              • > Overview
              • CLS
              • DATA
              • DIM
              • INPUT
              • NEWFILE
              • OPENFILE
              • PRINT
              • RANDOMIZE
              • READ
              • REM
              • RESTORE
              • SAVEFILE
              • SCREEN
              • VERSION
            • Control Structures
              • > Overview
              • BREAK
              • CONTINUE
              • END
              • FOR – TO – STEP – NEXT
              • GOSUB - RETURN
              • GOTO
              • IF – THEN – ELSEIF – ELSE – ENDIF
              • REPEAT – UNTIL
              • SWITCH – CASE – BREAK – DEFAULT
              • WHILE – WEND
            • Overview
          • Functions and Methods
            • Check Datatypes
              • > Overview
              • ISCHAR
              • ISDOUBLE
              • ISINT
              • ISLIST
              • ISNUMBER
              • ISSTRING
            • Mathmatics
              • > Mathmatical and physical constants
              • > Overview
              • ABS
              • ACOS
              • ASIN
              • ATAN
              • BINARYTOFLOAT
              • CARTHESIAN
              • CEIL
              • CONVERTBASE
              • COS
              • CSUM
              • DEG
              • DIV
              • DIVISORS
              • EXP
              • FAC
              • FLOATTOBINARY
              • FLOOR
              • FRAC
              • GCD, GGT
              • ICSUM, IQSUM
              • ISPRIME
              • ISSQR
              • LCM, KGV
              • LN
              • LOG
              • MOD
              • POLAR
              • POW
              • RAD
              • RND
              • ROUND
              • SGN
              • SIN
              • SQR
              • SQRT
              • SUM
              • TAN
              • TRUNC
            • Strings
              • > Overview
              • ASC
              • CHAR
              • LEFT
              • LEN
              • MID
              • PADCENTER
              • PADCENTER
              • PADLEFT
              • PADLEFT
              • PADRIGHT
              • PADRIGHT
              • RIGHT
              • STR
              • SUBST
              • VAL
            • Lists
              • > Overview
              • LISTADD
              • LISTADDALL
              • LISTCLEAR
              • LISTFROM
              • LISTGET
              • LISTINSERT
              • LISTISEMPTY
              • LISTISNOTEMPTY
              • LISTLENGTH
              • LISTREMOVE
              • LISTSHUFFLE
              • LISTSORT
              • LISTTOSTRING
            • Files
              • > Overview
              • DUMPFILE
              • EOF
              • READFROMFILE
              • WRITETOFILE
            • Date/Time
              • > Overview
              • DATE
              • TIME
            • Graphics
              • > Overview
              • ANTIALIAS
              • ARC
              • BOX
              • CIRCLE
              • COLOR
              • DOT
              • FILL
              • LINE
              • OVAL
              • STROKE
              • TEXT
            • Waypoints
              • > Overview
              • WPTSADD
              • WPTSCENTER
              • WPTSCLEAR
              • WPTSCOUNT
              • WPTSLAT
              • WPTSLON
            • Coordinates
              • > Overview
              • BEARING
              • CENTERTHREEPOINTS
              • CENTERTWOPOINTS
              • CONVERTFROM
              • CONVERTTO
              • DECTODMM
              • DISTANCE
              • DMMTODEC
              • DMMTODMS
              • DMSTODEC
              • DMSTODMM
              • GETLAT
              • GETLON
              • PROJECTION
              • SETLAT
              • SETLON
              • WGS84
            • GC Wizard Tools
              • Base encodings
                • Base encodings
              • Encryption and Codes
                • ABBADON
                • ATBASH
                • AVEMARIA
                • BACON
                • BCD
                • BIFID
                • GCCODE
                • MORSE
                • TRIFID
              • Hashes
                • Hashes
              • Miscelleanous Tools
                • BWW
                • ENCLOSEDAREAS
              • Numeral Systems
                • ROMAN NUMBERS
              • Rotation
                • Rotation
              • > Overview
            • > Overview
          • Table of Contents
        • 00 What is GCW Script?
        • 01 What is BASIC?
        • 02 The programming environment - how does GCW Script work?
        • 03 A brief overview of GCW Script
        • 04 Examples
        • 05 Error Messages
      • Wedding Anniversaries
        • What information does the wedding anniversaries function provide?
      • Zodiac Signs
        • 01 What information does the zodiac signs function provide?
  • Solving of Mysteries
    • Nina's Scratch Blog
      • The analysis to start with
        • 01 Analysis of the listing
        • 02 Geocaching-specific cryptanalysis
      • Numbers, numbers, numbers
        • 01 Introduction
        • 02 Foreign languages
        • 03 Number systems
        • 04 Binary, octal and hexadecimal numbers
        • 05 Binary codes
        • 06 Painting numbers
      • Language and writing
        • 01 Language and writing
        • 02 Keyboards
      • File analysis - Pictures, Music, Videos
        • 01 Introduction
        • 02 Optical game of hide and seek
        • 03 Technical picture hiding places
        • 04 Music file analysis
        • 05 Browser gimmicks
      • Encryptions
        • 01 Monoalphabetic substitution
        • 02 Polyalphabetic encryption - ENIGMA
      • Decrypt
        • 01 Manually decrypt ciphertexts
        • 02 Decode Vigenère
      • Other
        • 01 Barcodes
        • 02 Note and note encodings
        • 03 Colours
        • 04 Steganography
        • 05 Esoteric Programming Languages
        • 06 Geocaching.com-specific puzzles
      • 01 Introduction
      • 02 Thank you Nina
    • Useful Links
      • Useful Links
  • Examples
    • Examples
    • Introduction
  • Cooperation
    • Supporting with Features
      • 01 How do I get a development environment for GC Wizard?
      • 02 How do I work with GitHub and versioning?
      • 03 How is the project organized - what is the structure?
      • 04 Which widgets are available for the interface?
      • 05 What other code fragments can I use?
      • 06 What else is there to consider?
      • 07 Is there a practical example?
    • Supporting with Symbols
      • 01 How do I support with symbol tables?
      • 02 How do I optimize the file size and color depth of symbols with IrfanView?
      • 03 How do I convert Truetype fonts to symbols?
      • 04 How do I add symbol tables directly to the GC Wizard codebase via github?
    • Supporting with Translations
      • 01 How do I help translate the GC Wizard?
      • 02 How do I help translate the online manual?
    • 01 What kind of contributions are appreciated?

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