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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
162 April 09, 2021
02 How does the GC Wizard calculate with quadratic equations?

After entering the three coefficients, the result is calculated.
Quadratic equation
41 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
48 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
41 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
36 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
75 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
39 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
102 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
89 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
168 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
209 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
175 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
187 March 31, 2021
05 Esoteric Programming Languages

No, we are not leaving the realm of logic now and entering our inner, spiritual realm of knowledge. Esoteric programming languages might be a little better titled as "exotic" and describe programming languages that were not created for practical use, but for demonstration purposes, as academic...
Other
304 March 31, 2021
03 Colours

Many mysteries encode the coordinates with the help of colours. This also has the advantage of making the listing pretty colourful ;-) Resistance colour code One of the most frequently encountered is the resistance colour code. Mostly without, but sometimes with calculation of the current...
Other
1410 March 31, 2021
01 Barcodes

We all know bar codes. For several decades now, the bar codes have been emblazoned on all goods to reveal to the beeping cash register exactly what wants to be bought. With the spread of smartphones, we got another barcode in our everyday lives in the form of the square, black-and-white data matrix...
Other
88 March 30, 2021
01 Monoalphabetic substitution

Monoalphabetic substitution means an encryption in which each letter or group of letters is replaced by exactly one letter, group of letters or character. Thus, there is exactly one key alphabet. The advantage here is the simplicity of encryption and decryption. The disadvantage in the...
Encryptions
662 March 30, 2021
02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Playfair Cipher?

The entered text is automatically decrypted or encrypted according to the key and modification. The modification is Replace J with IReplace C with KReplace W with VV
Playfair Cipher
77 March 30, 2021
01 Manually decrypt ciphertexts

Simple, monoalphabetic ciphers, where each letter of the alphabet is simply assigned a different letter, character or string of numbers, can be deciphered in a relatively short time using a piece of paper, a table of letter frequencies for the language in question, and a little time. As a...
Decrypt
218 March 30, 2021
06 Painting numbers

After all, in mysteries we are always looking for one thing: the digits or numbers that tell us the GPS coordinates. Thanks to this circumstance, an almost unbelievable number of variants have developed over the course of time to represent numbers. This blog post is about what I consider to be a...
Numbers, numbers, numbers
123 March 30, 2021