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01 How does the GC Wizard calculate the Wet Bulb Temperature?

After entering the air temperature and the humidity, the wet bulb temperature is calculated automatically. Based on this a hint is given if something has to be considered.
Wet Bulb Temperature
24 November 21, 2022
04 What does the Right Ascension by Degree function do?

With this function the GC Wizard converts between degree and time measure. Decoding the right ascension in the time measure into the degree measure After entering the time measure, the degree measure is automatically output in the formats DEC: DD.DDD° DMM: DD° MM.MMM' DMS: DD° MM'...
Right ascension - Time to Degree
22 November 21, 2022
08 What does the function Day of the year do?

The function Day of the year converts the current date to the day number or the day number to the date and outputs additional information. The additional information are weekday, weekday number and week number. The calculation of the weekday number and week number is done according to ISO 8601...
Date and Time functions
15 November 21, 2022
00 What does the Physical constants function do?

The function lists various physical constants with their symbol and value as well as unit symbol and, if applicable, uncertainty. Currently GC Wizard knows the following physical constants: Atomic mass Avogadro constant Boltzmann constant Cs-133 resonance frequency Electron...
Physical Constants
14 November 21, 2022
00 What does the Mathematical constants function do?

The function lists different mathematical constants with their symbol and value. Currently GC Wizard knows the following mathematical constants: Apéry constant Archimedes constant Brun's constant for prime twins Conway constant The answer to the question about life, the...
Mathmatical Constants
18 November 21, 2022
00 What is the Equatorial Coordinate System?

Equatorial coordinate system - Wikipedia In spherical astronomy, the equatorial coordinate system is two geocentric coordinate systems on the celestial sphere, each of which has the plane of the celestial equator as its reference plane. The position of an object in the sky, thus on the...
Right ascension - Time to Degree
81 November 21, 2022
00 What are Magic Eye images?

Magic Eye - Wikipedia The Magic Eye (originally Magic Eye) is a book series of computer-generated stereograms published since the 1990s. The Magic Eye images were developed by Tom Baccei. On top of an original image, an image is superimposed that is similar to the original image, but in...
MagicEye
59 November 21, 2022
28 What are “Lucky Numbers”?

A000959 - OEIS Lucky numbers are natural numbers generated with a certain sieving principle: One starts with a list of positive natural numbers. Then one goes through the numbers of the list, beginning with x=2 and crosses out each x-th number. When counting the numbers to be crossed out, the...
Number Sequences
26 November 21, 2022
01 What are apparent temperatures?

...temperatures well below body temperature, lowers the perceived temperature, while high humidity in hot or muggy weather increases it. The GCWizard considers/offers four different calculations: Heat Index Humidex Summer-Simmer-Index Windchill Wet Bulb Temperature
Apparent Temperature
92 November 21, 2022
01 What is the vernal equinox?

Equinox - Wikipedia The vernal equinox is an important reference point in astronomy, especially in the geocentric equatorial coordinate system. By definition, it is infinitely far away. The direction to it is therefore the same from any point in the Earth's orbit. Because of precession, the...
Right ascension - Time to Degree
30 November 21, 2022
02 What is the right ascension?

Right ascension - Wikipedia Right ascension α or a (Latin ascensio recta 'straight ascent') is one of the two polar coordinates in the rotating equatorial coordinate system of spherical astronomy. Right ascension is more often given in time measure than in degrees or radians. The indication...
Right ascension - Time to Degree
21 November 21, 2022
02 What is obfuscation?

Obfuscation is another term for encoding or coding. How does the Bundeswehr obfuscate? Obfuscation is done with the Aliases/words/letters Numeral Code Procedure The individual letters and numbers are searched for in the Numeral Code table and the corresponding letter in the...
Bundeswehr
25 November 21, 2022
01 What is authentication?

Authentication is the process of proving that you are authorized to participate in processes/information etc. Example: The radio station KEULE wants to check whether the radio station EREMIT is authorized for the radio circuit: EREMIT, KEULE here, what is the authentication for YANKEE,...
Bundeswehr
42 November 21, 2022
00 What is Piet?

Esoteric programming language - Wikipedia Piet is an esoteric programming language in which the program code looks like an abstract painting. It was invented by David Morgan-Mar and named after Piet Mondrian, a pioneer of abstract art. The sample program on the left outputs the word...
Piet
286 November 21, 2022
03 How are Maya numbers decoded or encoded?

Decoding of Mayan Numbers By clicking on the individual segments, the single number is built up and output numerically. In addition, the individual numbers are added up according to the place value system. So in this example: 9 * 20 + 11 = 191 creates new number deletes last...
Maya
83 October 17, 2022
03 How does GC Wizard deals with Waveforms?

GC Wizard is able to analyze WAV Files and draw their Waveforms. After loading a WAV File the WAV file can be playedthe Waveform is calculated and displayedthe settings for the Wavform calculation can be adjustedidentified Morse code is displayed - if applicabledecoded text from identified...
Waveform
12 May 10, 2022
02 How to calculate and draw the Waveform?

Online calculator: Audio file waveform (planetcalc.com) PCM audio data is stored as a sequence of signal amplitude samples recorded at regular intervals. E.g. one second of the low-quality 8kHz audio consists of 8000 amplitude samples. To display every point of this fragment as is, you need at...
Waveform
60 May 10, 2022
01 What is Pulse-Code-Modulation – PCM?

Pulse-code modulation - Wikipedia Pulse code modulation, or PCM for short, is a process that converts a time- and value-continuous analog signal into a time- and value-discrete digital signal. Sampling of the analog signal with a constant sampling rate over time. The sampling rate must be...
Waveform
32 May 10, 2022
00 What is a Waveform?

Waveform - Wikipedia The waveform is the pictorial representation of the time course of an oscillation. For example, volume and frequency are represented on the time axis. For the display, it is necessary to sample and digitize the continuous-time and continuous-value analog...
Waveform
33 May 10, 2022
05 How does GC Wizard authenticate with the Bundeswehr Talking Board

Check Authentification After entering the callsign/alias, letter to authentificate to and the three pairs of the authenification code these three pairs will be checked according to the given tables. The tables are hidden by default. If the authentification is correct you will...
Bundeswehr
124 May 10, 2022