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MORE SPOILERS

What's really interesting to me is how the numbers are encoded when they get larger than 25. The game requires you to understand the basic pattern of system in order to generalize from numbers in the schoolhouse (1-10) to the numbers required to complete the game (1-25 at most). But even understanding this, there is something off about how this Age number is written: just reading the numerals, it appears to be written as "98rd". But what the game doesn't explicitly tell you is that the number system is actually in base 25! So, "98rd" is actually "9*25 + 8"rd, or "233rd", making the grammar work out.