"Hey, you wanna see something else?" Kyle asked.
Theodor remained silent.
Since Theodor didn't answer, Kyle made something else.
He racked his brain real hard to reverse-engineer a shitty calculator.
Naturally, this wasn't the electric kind, and it definitely wasn't small.
It just worked by pulling a crank, which made balls move into places.
"Look, I put four balls here to symbolize a four-digit number. Then, I move the lever to multiplication and put four balls here. Then, I move the lever again."
The balls moved inside the machine and fell out in different holes at the bottom.
"Oh, I forgot to include an additional ball in case it creates another decimal. Just imagine there's a ninth ball that says one right here," Kyle said.
"Oh, I got another idea!" Kyle shouted as he got excited. "This is a favorite from my home country!"
Kyle created a long pipe made out of iron.
Then, he thought about how to make gunpowder.
