Playing around a bit more should get use to realize that there is something awfully wrong here: it doesn’t’ seem possible to solve the above equations using our regular number system – no matter what we try to plug in, our answers always seem to sway far apart from one another. Attempting to come up with feasible solutions using negative numbers doesn’t help either since the multiplication step would require 2 negative numbers and no 2 negative numbers can add up to a number greater than 0.