: It's numbered 5: Guardians. The math is all screwed up because all of a
: sudden we're introducing a ton of variables to solve for, and just solving
: for G alone is going to be a bitch. I think 343 is just making up numbers
: and throwing everything they have at the wall praying that things stick.
: Hence the Beta this far in advance and praying they have enough time to
: change the entire math formula if it blows up in their face.

Shit. You're right. We can probably assume that G is the gravitational constant (approx 6.674), but the others may not correspond to any known variable. Perhaps it's some Halo-based numerology, but I don't have my Little Orphan Flipyap decoder ring handy to translate.