I will always remember all of my engineering, chemistry and physics friends in uni complaining about how expensive all the shit they had to buy was and me being like

summons bear Fuck.

The actual containment methods are programming a script to do the calculations. Some calculations take thousands of smaller steps that you would lose your mind doing. Finite Element Analysis comes to mind. The number of nodes one might use for FEA today would make doing the calculations by hand mind numbing.

Is that Ponder Stibbons in an alternate reality?