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What is the Larrabee Cipher?

Bob Lord’s Crypto Museum and Charles S. Larrabee, 1871 Charles S. Larrabee set himself the goal of developing a better cryptographic method. In 1874, he proposed his method to the US Congress. Basically, his code is a Vigenére cipher that also works with numbers. Two letters are inserted...
Larrabee
8 May 25, 2025
What does the GC Wizard do with elements of geocaching?

Elements of Geocaching In 2010, the magazine Geocacher (no longer active) published the Elements of Geocaching. This is a geocaching derivative based on the periodic table of elements. The GC Wizard offers three functions for this: Display of the table Display of the...
Elements of Geocaching
5 May 25, 2025
How does the GC Wizard calculate with Kaprekar’s Routine?

Kaprekar's routine - Wikipedia When a four-digit number is selected, Kaprekar's algorithm is executed immediately and the sequence of numbers and the number of steps are output.
Kaprekar's Routine
5 May 25, 2025
How does the GC Wizard generate images with or from Tupper’s formula?

Creating images from the number - decoding Original After inserting the number, the image is generated and output using the “Submit” button. Further actions can be carried out after the output: Image View: FullscreenZoom inSave imageOpen Image in– Hex Viewer– Color Corrections–...
Tupper's formula
7 May 25, 2025
What is Tupper’s formula?

Tupper's self-referential formula - Wikipedia Tupper's formula is an inequality created by Canadian Jeff Tupper that generates a pattern of 17×106 pixels from a given...
Tupper's formula
6 May 25, 2025
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
26 May 25, 2025
01 Which symbol tables are available?

This section provides a set of symbol tables for encoding and decoding texts and numbers. Currently provided are Numbers Ancient Egyptian Numbers Arabic-Indian Numbers Babylonian Numbers Base16 Bibibinary Brahmi Chinese Numbers Cistercian Numbers Devanagari numbers...
Symboltables
393 May 25, 2025
How does the GC Wizard decrypt or encrypt with the Hill cipher?

Decrypt After entering the text, key, alphabet and matrix size, and any fill characters, the text is decoded and output directly. The matrix and the coding of the alphabet are also output. Encrypt After entering the text, key, alphabet and matrix size, and any fill characters,...
Hill Cypher
29 January 25, 2025
How does the GC Wizard encodes according to the Major System?

After selecting the language - German, English, French, Polish - and the mode - all words or nouns (word which are starting with a capital letter) only - the text is automatically encoded and output. The actual coded text is also output as cleaned text.
Major System Code
9 January 25, 2025
01 What features does the GC Wizard provide for Conway’s Game of Life?

In total, the function provides five sections: Open File (Import RLE) Load a file with a pre-build Game of Life from the device or from the internet. Definition of the playing field The switches are used to define the size of the square. Round world means there are no borders....
Conway's Game of Life
69 January 12, 2025
What does the “Upside Down Text” function do?

The “Upside Down Text” function rotates an entered text by 180°. This means that the text is mirrored horizontally and vertically. Decrypt Encrypt
Upside Down/rotate flip text
21 January 12, 2025
What is the major system or major system code?

...like the numeral 6 rotated 180°. Lower case script j tends to have a lower loop, like the numeral 6. In some serif fonts, upper case CH, SH and ZH each have six serifs. The postalveolar affricates /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ form a voiceless and voiced pair, as do the similar-sounding postalveolar...
Major System Code
35 January 12, 2025
01 How does the format converter work?

In the function "Format converter" it is possible to convert different coordinate formats into each other. The following formats are available for input and output. The examples support the assignment of the desired format. Optionally the given coordinate can converted and shown in all...
Format Converter
723 January 12, 2025
What does the Randomizer do?

The Randomizer tool offers a set of random generators: Coin Flipper - a random generator for coin flips. You have to define the nomber of throws and GC Wizard provides the list of throws and summ of head and tail. Dice Thrower - a random generator for dice throws for common...
Randomizer
19 December 08, 2024
01 What games are implemented?

The "Games" functional area provides tools related to well-known games. Currently, the following games are included: Billard Balls Bowling Conways Game of Life Nonograms Scrabble Sudoku The Settlers of Catan Towers of Hanoi Number Pyramid Solver Word Search (Letter...
Games
98 November 01, 2024
What function does the GC Wizard offer for the towers of Hanoi?

After entering the number of disks, the number of moves and the individual moves are displayed.
Towers of Hanoi
9 October 24, 2024
What are the Towers of Hanoi?

Tower of Hanoi - Wikipedia The Tower of Hanoi (also called The problem of Benares Temple or Tower of Brahma or Lucas' Tower and sometimes pluralized as Towers, or simply pyramid puzzle) is a mathematical game or puzzle consisting of three rods and a number of disks of various diameters, which...
Towers of Hanoi
18 October 24, 2024
01 What does the Visual Cryptography function do?

To encrypt information using visual cryprography, two black and white images are created from the image containing the information, which must be superimposed in order to obtain the original information again. As an additional option, an image can be used as a key to ensure standardised...
Visual Cryprography
154 September 24, 2024
04 What does the Symbol Replacer do?

This tool can be used to support and possibly simplify the decoding of an image with symbols. Limitations The comparison of the symbols is not perfect. Small differences in the images are not detected. The search and comparison is very time consuming depending on the number of selected...
Symboltables
108 September 20, 2024
01 What does the LSB Steganography function do?

In the LSB Steganography (least significant bit) section, the GC Wizard searches/hides messages in the code of the image. The message can also be de-/encoded with a key for an AES encryption. Decrypt The GC Wizard allows you to load a graphic from the device or from the Internet. In...
LSB Steganography
142 September 20, 2024