What's the origin of Fairmath?

It’s hard to separate the idea of FairMath from the idea of stats. The core idea is that over the course of the game, we’d ask you questions pertaining to a stat. Sometimes we’ll want to increase the stat, sometimes decrease, sometimes by a little, sometimes by a lot. The idea of FairMath is to restrict the range of stats from 1 to 99, so you can say, “75 is pretty high!” without knowing that much about earlier choices in the game. I first encountered the algorithm in Alter Ego, but you could rediscover it yourself if you had the same problem to solve.

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