If you look at every period operation, the first letter is always a letter between a and d, inclusive. In fact, every letter a through d appears as the first letter in a period operation exactly once with every other letter a through x.
In other words, the only letters that appear as the first letter in a period operation are a, b, c, d. The letters e, f, g, h, i, x always appear as the second letters in period operations, or as the first or last letters in the slash operations.
Yeah Herredy, cub already discovered the reason for that pattern and verumbark confirmed it.
We basically just need to find what the letters represent (their distribution may play a part) and what the operators do.
I've been assuming that the operators are opposites (like multiplication and division) but it's entirely possible they're completely separate operators.
If the symbols for the operators actually have meaning, then I assume the period is either multiplication, concatenation, or the dot product of a matrix.
They sure are. There's a reason for that. If it means anything, Foxie's gotten closer than anyone on this thread, and the answer is made entirely of letters.
