KOTOR Math

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I like to make fun of the Republic ciphers on Manaan because they're supposed to be ciphers but they're stumped by some simple arithmetic relationships lol.  I love that there's this kind of math in Knights of the Old Republic, though.  It's rare to see games of this sort actually incorporate even simple mathematics like this.  To be fair, quite a few games do incorporate logic puzzles--they've become a staple in Zelda games, for example, but I don't see a lot of adventure or RPG games willing to ask players to use even simple arithmetic or algebra to solve puzzles, though.

Last night I encountered a math puzzle in this game that actually stumped me.  It was from the Tatooine hunter droid 'slimeball must die' script lol--specifically the 'descriptive progression' part, though it was just because it used some nonstandard notation/definition.  Once the notation was explained (I looked it up from someone who wanted an explanation of how to solve it, not just what the answer was), I was able to derive the answer from the explanation.  I was however correct that it is based somewhat on the field of mathematics called 'self-descriptive numbers' which in itself refers to more than one kind of thing.

Anyway I think it's really cool how they incorporated math into this game.