Hard to imagine that process would be trivial especially since as he noted in the article he had to have criteria on when to count a skittle such as if it were

Hard to imagine that process would be trivial especially since as he noted in the article he had to have criteria on when to count a skittle such as if it were too small, appeared unedible and other such characteristics. But after completing the manual way would be interesting to running programs on it to see how close they are from the actual numbers.