The Careful Scientist exercise requires following a small set of joint movement rules which dictate the ways a performer’s arms may move.  As part of the rule set no movement that is happening on the one side of the body can happen at the same time on the other side of the body.  Because the options are so discrete and constrained, the number of possible action sequences can be calculated.   As we have discussed here previously, the movements are limited to: Upper Arm Pointing Shoulder Rotation Elbow Flexion Forearm Rotation With a new action being chosen roughly every 1-3 seconds, there are millions of possible sequences for the first half minute of the exercise. Calculating the number of permutations was useful for giving a…