Archeologists have discovered that the several thousand-year-old mathematics of the ancient Mei civilization was extremely advanced. They understood methods of addition and multiplication for multi-digit numbers. Their rules for representing expressions and performing calculations are exactly the same as those used in the modern day (addition of integers are in base-10, the leftmost digit is the most-significant, the highest digit cannot be zero; expressions are infix, multiplication comes before addition, etc.), with the only exception being that mathematical symbols themselves are written differently. There is sufficient evidence to show that ancient Mei mathematics uses a total of 13 operators which have a one-to-one correspondence to the modern day symbols 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, +, *, and =. To simplify the representations of the symbols, we shall use the first 13 alphabetical letters a, b, … m in place of these symbols (known as the ancient Mei mathematical symbols). The problem is, no one currently knows the general relationship for matching the ancient Mei mathematical symbols to modern mathematical symbols.
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