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I’m sure you, at some point in your life, may have stood in a line that didn’t run completely efficiently. Despite being said to love waiting in queues for things, Brits like me have all sorts of stories about how awful the queues are.
Fortunately, mathematics can provide insight into queues and answer questions such as how many staff members are needed to run them efficiently. You can collect data about the actual queue and use the average arrival rate to calculate the probability that someone will join. This is just…
(Tag to translate) Mathematics
