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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    The customers are arriving slightly faster than they can be processed, so the queue grows. 5.8/hr < 6x10/hr. There does seem to be a missing parameter to arrive at the specific conclusion of a 5 hour wait, though, such as the length of time the queue is open to additional customers during the business day.

    edit: As pointed out, I misread and was mistaken. The customers are served slightly faster, so it only comes down to the missing info of arrival time.

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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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        Lol yes, you’re absolutely right. It comes down to the serving time. My brain was a bit frazzled I guess.

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        Yeah I got my wires crossed and mixed up the numbers. According to the linked actual article it comes down to missing info related to arrival time.