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.

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    Can you elaborate on the math here? (I believe you, I just want to understand the simulation parameters better).

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        Thanks! This article really clears up a lot of the details that help the simulation make sense.

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

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

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      Intuitive way to see why is that 6.1 customers per hour would mean infinite waiting time (when it reaches a steady state)