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Old 06-07-2003, 23:19   #5
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Theodoric has reached the bronze age
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Then there's Theodoric's first law of supermarket shopping.

If n = the number of people at a checkout and d = the number of available dividers, then d < n - 1, except for the special case of n = 1, when d approaches infinity.
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