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04 What is the Base64 encoding?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64 Base64 describes a method in which binary data is converted into a string consisting of only 64 different ASCII characters. Three 8-bit bytes (i.e. a total of 24 bits) are divided into four 6-bit groups. Each of these groups corresponds to a number...
Base Code
95 April 25, 2021
03 What is the Base32 encoding?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32 Base32 describes a method in which binary data is converted into a string consisting of only 32 different ASCII characters. Five bytes of 8 bits each (i.e. a total of 40 bits) are broken down into eight 5-bit groups. Each of these groups...
Base Code
73 April 25, 2021
09 How can I export a formula group?

...example. Another nice use case is: If you like, you can prepare your tour and its complicated formulas at home. Just use the Web Version of GCWizard in your browser. This way, you are able to use your normal keyboard. When you finished, you can scan the result with your smartphone.
Formula Solver
66 April 17, 2021
03 Why does the coordinate parser exist internally?

...12.312 In order to minimize problems for the GCWizard user, the parser is designed to be very flexible. However, problems can occur from time to time. Single characters can be enough to turn a seemingly valid format into an uninterpretable text. Even if the parser tolerates a large number of...
Coordinate calculation
56 April 17, 2021
What does “The Settlers of Catan – Number Chips” do?

Catan - Wikipedia The game includes number chips, which have letters on one side and numbers on the other. This allows you to create a substitution cipher. Unfortunately, the number chips are only unique when converting letters to numbers, since, for example, C and P have the value 6....
The Settlers of Catan
236 April 17, 2021
05 Binary codes

In mystery solving, you quite often encounter zeros and irons. Or something that can be broken down in code to two states: two different colours or sounds, something is true or false, something is there or gone, long or short. Or, for example, capital letters where they don't belong....
Numbers, numbers, numbers
435 April 11, 2021
02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Abaddon Cipher?

After setting the three key symbols, the entered text is automatically encrypted or decrypted in the output field.
Abaddon Code
442 April 11, 2021
04 What settings do I have regarding coordinates?

In the coordinates settings, the settings for the app's calculations are to be set: Default format: the desired default coordinate format for each function is set here. DMM is preset due to its use in geocaching.Default hemispheres: This sets the desired default for manual input of coordinates....
General Settings
86 April 09, 2021
02 How does the GC Wizard calculate with quadratic equations?

After entering the three coefficients, the result is calculated.
Quadratic equation
31 April 03, 2021
03 How does the GC Wizard convert atomic numbers into chemical symbols?

By entering atomic numbers, separated by spaces, the GC Wizard translates them directly into the text of the chemical symbols.
Periodic Table of the Elements
39 April 03, 2021
02 How does GC Wizard calculate with complex numbers?

Conversion from Cartesian to polar coordinates Input Real part aImaginary part b Output Radius rAngle ? Conversion from polar to cartesian coordinates Input Radius rAngle ? Output Real part aImaginary part b
Complex numbers
28 April 03, 2021
01 What are Quadratic Equations?

Quadratic equation - Wikipedia A quadratic equation is an equation that can be written in the form for a not equal to 0. A quadratic equation can have none, one, or two solutions. They are calculated with the formula If the expression under the root is negative, there are only...
Quadratic equation
21 April 02, 2021
00 What is the Silver ratio?

Silver ratio - Wikipedia The silver section (borrowed from the term golden section) is the division ratio of a distance or other quantity in which the ratio of the sum of the doubled larger part and the smaller part to the larger part is equal to the ratio of the larger part to the smaller part.
Silver ratio
26 April 01, 2021
00 What is the Golden Ration ??

Golden ratio - Wikipedia The golden ratio (Latin sectio aurea, proportio divina) is the division ratio of a distance or other quantity in which the ratio of the whole to its larger part (also called the major) is equal to the ratio of the larger to the smaller part (the minor). Thus, with a as...
Golden ratio Phi
30 April 01, 2021
00 What is π?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi The number π, also Ludolph's number, Ludolf's number or Archimedes' constant, is a mathematical constant defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. This ratio is independent of the size of the circle. The circle number...
Circle Number Pi
54 April 01, 2021
05 Browser gimmicks

...several mysteries required me to deactivate Javascript to solve them. Since I surf with a script blocker anyway, this only required one click for me. Theoretically. Practically, I first had to get the idea that the owner was asking me to do just that. Just like the mysteries where there is an...
File analysis - Pictures, Music, Videos
65 March 31, 2021
04 Music file analysis

From time to time, there is also something for the ears in the listing. In such media, too, coordinates and further information can be concealed in an outrageously wide variety of ways. The easiest way is in the metadata, which can be found in most music players, in Windows via the file explorer...
File analysis - Pictures, Music, Videos
140 March 31, 2021
03 Technical picture hiding places

Besides the purely optical variants, a lot of nastiness can be done with digital images in a technical way. In geocaching mysteries, I find computerised steganography the worst. As nice as it is to be able to hide almost any imaginable thing in pictures invisibly and almost uncrackable with...
File analysis - Pictures, Music, Videos
152 March 31, 2021
02 Optical game of hide and seek

The simplest way to hide additional information in an image is to simply write it on it in a clearly visible way. If the image has a very high resolution and is therefore displayed at a very small size on the screen, such labelling can be almost invisible, depending on the background. Very large...
File analysis - Pictures, Music, Videos
136 March 31, 2021
02 Keyboards

Sometimes you have a jumble of numbers or characters in front of you as a puzzle, which can be translated into plain text using keyboards. Keyboard shifts and position A variant of the keyboard shifts usually works with a standard QWERZ keyboard - i.e. the one we usually have under our...
Language and writing
159 March 31, 2021