Guess the formula

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14 Sep 2006, 10:58 am

Guess the formula. If you get it right, the person who got it right then gets a formula. You don't need to solve it or simplify/factorise it, just guess what it is meant to mean.

Clue: something to do with queues.

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14 Sep 2006, 11:00 am

The time it takes for you to get to the front relative to how hurried you are?

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14 Sep 2006, 11:02 am

Nope.

Actually this is a complex one and nobody can guess it so I'll just tell you:

Once a queue has built up, if there are c checkouts, and people being served p times faster than they arrive, the above equation is the length L.

Okay here's a simpler one.

V = 4(πr³)/3

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14 Sep 2006, 12:58 pm

I know that's the formula for the volume of a sphere, and r is the radius of the sphere. Is that what you're looking for?

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14 Sep 2006, 1:04 pm

Yes! Now you supply a formula.

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