It's also an excellent illustration of exponential effects, how just a few things over a threshold of thousands can make a disproportionately huge difference.

It's also an excellent illustration of exponential effects, how just a few things over a threshold of thousands can make a disproportionately huge difference. Those forks in the extra bag were probably worth hundreds of dollars each to the office in terms of time and productivity savings from all the effort saved from fork hoarding.