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The Poisson process is a random distribution. Just because its average is 1.1 per minute doesn't mean you can't have 2 people show up at virtually the same time
by hiAndrewQuinn 2y ago
The Poisson process is a random distribution. Just because its average is 1.1 per minute doesn't mean you can't have 2 people show up at virtually the same time, it's just pretty rare. Or there's like a 10^-100 chance a million people show up at the same second, etc etc. You'll always have some nonzero average queuing time if you calculate it across the whole distribution for that reason.