Rafael Prieto Curiel, in the mathematics magazine Chalkdust, does some rough calculations about waiting for a bus: “Let’s measure how much time I expect to wait for the next bus to arrive as I observe more or fewer passengers in the stop…. If I find zero passengers at the bus stop, 99% of the time I […]
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Wait, do tell: Why your line is slow
Are you waiting in a line at a store right how, fuming? Bill Hammack gives about as clear an explanation as possible for why your line probably moves slower than a line next to you: (Thanks to Gizmodo and Kristine Danowski for bringing this to our attention.)