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How much is that in Terran money? (Posted on 2025-05-30) Difficulty: 3 of 5

The Altarians use an interesting number system.

In Altarian, the natural numbers 1 to 5 are written r, s, sr, s/s, and ss. For what it's worth, the Altarians use z for 0.

Thus, s/s+ss=sr/sr and ssr+sr/sr=s/s/s/s. Obviously, s/s*ss=s/s/ss.

Give the Altarian equivalents of the Earth numbers 21 and 36.

Too easy? How about 37 and 38?

No Solution Yet Submitted by broll    
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Some Thoughts Or maybe concatenation means ,,, | Comment 2 of 5 |
Concatenation ab might mean a*b + 1

so sr = 2*1 + 1 = 3
    ss = 2*2 + 1 = 5

ssr = s(sr) = 2*3 + 1 = 7

Note that under this theory, ssr does not equal (ss)r = 5*1 +1 = 6,
because then equation 2 would not work.  So, unlike Terran, the implied parentheses go from right to left.

  Posted by Steve Herman on 2025-05-30 19:04:38
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