Sheldon sits at the dining table. A single pencil. A practice test. No tape. No rubber bands. Mary watches from the kitchen.
Sheldon processes this. He looks at his raw, un-taped fingers. He looks at the yellow pencil.
The Prosthetic Theorem
Entry fee is fifteen dollars. Plus the cost of replacement pencils. I break them when I get an answer wrong. Which, historically, has not happened. But in MPC, the problems are designed by sadists with PhDs.
Trivial. The answer is 3:47 PM. But writing it requires bending my metacarpophalangeal joint 15 degrees off-axis. young sheldon s05 mpc
He finishes the 20-question test in 6 minutes.
This is your MPC card. Every correct answer in a tournament earns a point. Wrong answers deduct points. Get to 100 points, you qualify for State. Sheldon sits at the dining table
He picks up the pencil again and starts sharpening it with deliberate care.