Sunday, February 24, 2019

Designing a Walmart store

How do we do the calculations of, square feet, size of entry and exit doors, number of checkout stands?  We do it linear, we have ratios for those computations, and for WalMart type of stores, Newton's grammar even works after a fashion.

But, there is one active ingredient that is always assumed, the Walmart checkout manager will be making a round tree trunk, so the flow equations are valid. He is there making the clerk and customer queues stable, and they simulate the Walmart force fields that make the planned layout work.  That is the theory of nothing, it says that if the tree trunk is round then the root and branch graphs, together, make a sphere; the trunk  be sphere packer.

It is like having a little Einstein everywhere to add or subtract counter space, adding equation terms (open counter) often so time and space don't get sparse and divide by zero.

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