Haha! He grabs a piece of chalk from the board, one long enough that he can easily snap it in half, then spreads it carefully out on the table in front of them.

"Okay, so first thing to do is a quick mathematical calculation of the number of surfaces we've got here- two faces on this chip, two on this one, around, around both cylinders plus two ends each makes-?"

First math question, Hickey; how desperate is the situation, can you do simple addition at speed?