200,000 x zero is still zero.

As art collecting makes the Herald's Personal Finance supplement,
I'm reminded of a joke my 6th form maths teacher used to recount:
"One of my students came to me at the end of the year and said
'Thank you, I now know 100 times what I did at the start of the year!'
"What did you know at the start of the year?" the teacher responded.
"Nothing!"