Day 10 - Zero

You decide to pass on the Hermes Tour and just explore this sector of space on your own. There’s new planets to visit and sights to see! You open up your navigation menu on your Aerostar and go to punch in new coordinates, but it looks like all your numbers have been replaced with a new set of symbols!

You instinctively pull up your computer’s calculator app to see it spit out three multiplication puzzles at you. Luckily, it looks like the digit zero hasn’t been changed, but everything else has. You’ll need to sort this out before you can enter coordinates - you don’t want to be flung off course! What type of translator will you need to understand your computer’s new syntax?

  • These are two-step multiplication problems. Note on the first one that R*R returns R in the one’s digit. Only three numbers can do that: 1, 5, and 6. If it was a 1, then the first row would be SR instead of VER. So, it’s either 5 or 6. Can you find another letter somewhere else that has to be either a 5 o 6 to help narrow down what R could be?

  • R = 6 and E = 5.

  • You should know what the numbers 1 through 9 were translated to. Put your letters in that order.