To be fair, Rosinante doesn't know the first thing about the math either, but it's easy enough to parrot someone who presumably does.

"Not much," he admits with a shrug at the end of the not-story and all of its glaring holes. But given his own refusal to tell most people much about himself, it's not like he can really argue with the tactic.

"So you don't stay dead, and given you're here, you tend not to stay alive either," he says, unsure what to make of it. "There, you have no lantern, but here, you have one. What it sounds like is we probably shouldn't base too many assumptions on how the portal works off your experience."

Since, you know, not staying dead or alive isn't a normal problem to have. But that's fine, at this point he's long past being bothered by things that aren't normal anyway.