That's cause he made up a number. You could solve anything by making up a number. but it doesn't work. How does that number relate to any other number? what's the use of this number if it HAS no relation? It's useless. For it to the any use, he would have to express his new number, nullity, in terms of other numbers, but as he said, there's the number line, and then his stupid fanciful number off to the side, away in his own fantasy world