 The table also gives them a clear understanding of the Martian number system, because it is arranged in a known way based on numbers.They then deduce that the Martian calendar divided the year into ten periods named for the numbers 1 to 10, and are able to identify scientific journals by their publication date.In 2018, Tomi S. Melka and Michal Místecký carried out a complex quantitative analysis of the style of H. Beam Piper's novelette (1957).