Shut up Becky!
This guy’s dangerous influence has been known for a while now, but I guess it’s good that bigger outlets are starting to shed light on his reach. Back in 2017 he was one of a handful of subjects covered in Elizabeth Sandifer’s collection of essays “Neoreaction a Basilisk”.
I thought that too, 9 is like a halogen, it wants to resolve to 10 anyway it can like fluorine wants one last electron. So allow the 9 to rip one off of the neighboring numbers and then perform the calculation.