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This is such a lovely parable! Still, I wonder what Dijkstra meant with the sentence<p>> true mathematicians, however, fail to see the point.<p>I would have expected mathematicians to appreciate the nice symmetry of the proposed solution and am curious about the other point of view.

I was sure that they’d return to a toilet in every car by the end, and the moral of the story would be about optimizing for the wrong thing.

Can the turntables hold two cars at a time?

Easy problem to solve. Put all the toilet cars up front, charge 3x for those seats, and say everyone else is "complaining about a lords and peasants sort of thing."

My apologies, I should have submitted the HTML version of this instead - <a href="https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD365.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/E...</a>

I was sure that they’d return to a toilet in every car by the end, and the moral of the story would be about optimizing for the wrong thing.

Can the turntables hold two cars at a time?

Easy problem to solve. Put all the toilet cars up front, charge 3x for those seats, and say everyone else is "complaining about a lords and peasants sort of thing."

A Parabel (1973)

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A Parabel (1973)

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