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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
198 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
917 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
63 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
572 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
58 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
169 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
95 March 30, 2021
04 Binary, octal and hexadecimal numbers

"There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary code and those who don't." Another, much better known, place value system is the binary system. A place value system with a base of two. There are only two states, zero and one, on or off, dot or dash, there or gone, true or false....
Numbers, numbers, numbers
124 March 30, 2021
03 Number systems

But what if we leave the pure numbers and number words we know and move into other place value systems? If we no longer count to 10 as in our decimal system (which does not happen to harmonise with the number of our fingers), but perhaps to twenty, as in the vigesimal system. Or to sixty, as in the...
Numbers, numbers, numbers
152 March 30, 2021
02 Foreign languages

This section thus begins with a topic which would also have fitted perfectly into the section on "Language and Writing". Numbers can be nicely hidden by representing them in foreign languages. One, two, three we will all get freely translated, but what about aon, M?t trà or hai,...
Numbers, numbers, numbers
62 March 30, 2021
01 Introduction

Numbers are usually what we are looking for. Coordinates. A pair, north and east. Sometimes also a bearing, although here you still need a point from which to take a bearing. Usually this is the coordinate where the listing was placed. If a coordinate is hidden, then either in its entirety and...
Numbers, numbers, numbers
65 March 30, 2021
02 Geocaching-specific cryptanalysis

Or also: And what do I do with this now??? You've found the puzzle and are now confused by a mountain of numbers, letters, pictures, signs or the like? Again, perhaps this attempt to present in a structured way what what I have found could be will help. Please do not take it amiss if I do not...
The analysis to start with
417 March 30, 2021
01 What are Babylonian Numbers?

Babylonian mathematics - Wikipedia The Babylonians calculated in a number system with the base 60 (sexagesimal system). That means that the place values are ascending from right to left: 600 (1), 601 (60), 602 (3600), 603 (216.000) and so on. Multiplying the digits by the place value gives...
Babylonian numbers
232 March 28, 2021
01 Which functions are provided for circle number pi (π=3.1415926…)?

The function package "Pi" provides functions for calculating numbers from the decimal places of the irrational number Pi - circular number. n-th decimal DigitRangeSearch Occurrence
Circle Number Pi
31 March 28, 2021
01 Which functions are provided for Golden ratio Phi (Φ=1.6180339…)?

The function package "Φ" provides functions for calculating numbers from the decimal places of the irrational number Phi - Golden Section. n-th decimal digitRangeSearch Occurrence
Golden ratio Phi
30 March 28, 2021
04 What calculations take place at moonrise/moonset?

The following information is required for entry: LocationDateTime zone The output will then show: RiseTransit/culminationSet
Astronomy
78 March 28, 2021
02 How does GC Wizard encode or decode a GeoCache Code?

Decrypt: When the GeoCache code is entered, the output is automatically a decimal number. Encrypt: When a decimal number is entered, the output is automatically the GeoCache code.
GC-Code
110 March 27, 2021
03 How are Babylonian numbers decoded or encoded?

Decoding Babylonian 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. Encoding Babylonian numbers When a number is entered, it is...
Babylonian numbers
64 March 27, 2021
02 What functions does Babylonian Numbers offer?

This submenu offers two functions for decoding and encoding Babylonian numbers.Here, both an interactive input option of the individual numbers and a symbol table are available.
Babylonian numbers
41 March 27, 2021
01 What are complex numbers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number The complex numbers extend the number range of the real numbers in such a way that the equation x * x = -1 becomes solvable. Since all real square numbers are non-negative, the solution of this equation cannot be real. So we need a new number, it...
Complex numbers
28 March 27, 2021