how do pharmacists count out pills actually

like if i get a bottle of 180 pills they're not just counting them out one by one by hand, obviously

@kat fancy automatic pill counting machines exist. I've seen one in action, it's neat. The design is tricky since they need to deal with arbitrary pill shapes.

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@starkatt @kat I expect you could probably design some adversarial pill shape that wouldn't work--ring-shaped pills come to mind--but who would make pills like that?
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