For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some ‘organic element’ since I couldn’t accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      Also, in this simulation are the customers arriving in equally spaced intervals or is random arrival time within the bounds assumed?

      • Fashtas 🇦🇺
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        41 year ago

        In the linked article they are arriving randomly. It takes 10 minutes per customer and they arrive every 10.3 minutes.

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      Aren’t they arriving slightly slower than can be served, according to these numbers:

      If one customer takes 10 minutes to serve, you can serve 6 customers in an hour

      and you get 5.8 customers every hour, which is less than 6

      So you serve 6 customers, meaning you have a leftover capacity of 0.2 per hour or 1 extra customer every 5 hours

      Maybe the numbers are switched over or I am misunderstanding something

      Edit: nevermind, read the link in the thread and realised I treated the average as the actual serving time and I’m guessing that’s what makes it non intuitive. I’m still not entirely clear on how it works.

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      21 year ago

      They’re arriving slower than they can be processed. So the line shrinks slowly it there’s a line.