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philwelch on Dec 8, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: A single line to 3 cashiers is ~3x faster than a s...

Yes, but that's not the point. How do you allocate the extra cashiers? Do they just take customers one by one from the existing queue, or do they split the queue awkwardly and encourage customers to form additional queues?

gujk on Dec 8, 2011 [–]

Parent point is that once you have a nontrivial queue, very already lost, so it doesn't matter which style is faster.

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