{"id":262785,"date":"2024-10-21T17:20:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T17:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/21\/how-the-maths-of-queuing-can-make-lines-more-efficient\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:47","slug":"how-the-maths-of-queuing-can-make-lines-more-efficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/21\/how-the-maths-of-queuing-can-make-lines-more-efficient\/","title":{"rendered":"How the maths of queuing can make lines more efficient"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Taylor Swift fans queue outside Murrayfield stadium<\/p>\n

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I imagine that you may, at some point in your life, have been in a queue that wasn\u2019t run entirely efficiently. Despite allegedly loving to line up and wait for things, Brits like me have an array of stories about badly run queues.<\/a><\/p>\n

Luckily, maths can give us insight into queues and answer questions like how many staff are needed to help them run efficiently. We can gather data on a real queue and use the average arrival rate to calculate the probability of someone joining. This is just\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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