StrangerCoug was a software engineer back home, as well as a bit of a hack writer as a hobby. He could never dream of writing anything as poetic as the greats of Shakespeare and the like, but that was not what Jake needed from Coug. He needed other numbers besides just 1, and there were strict rules on how to create other numbers.
"Well, let's see," StrangerCoug said. "I'd increment, like you can do with the ++ operator in many programming languages I know, but I don't know if you have an operator like that in your pocket universe. But luckily, you increment a number by adding 1 to it, and 1 is exactly what you have. So there you have it: