Examples
Examples
Try the starting example
- Covers by service interval (count)
- 10,20,15,5
- Cutlery pieces per cover (count)
- 3
- Issue-to-wash-return delay (intervals)
- 2
- Existing usable cutlery (pieces)
- 100
- Peak required cutlery (pieces)
- 105
- Additional cutlery needed (pieces)
- 5
Try another scenario
- Covers by service interval (count)
- 15,20,25,10
- Cutlery pieces per cover (count)
- 4
- Issue-to-wash-return delay (intervals)
- 3
- Existing usable cutlery (pieces)
- 150
- Peak required cutlery (pieces)
- 240
- Additional cutlery needed (pieces)
- 90
Calculation method
Calculation method
Peak required cutlery (pieces)
Maximum rolling sum of cover counts over wash delay intervals×pieces/cover.
Additional cutlery needed (pieces)
max(0,peak required−existing usable).
Symbols and units
- a
- Covers by service interval (count)
- b
- Cutlery pieces per cover (count)
- c
- Issue-to-wash-return delay (intervals)
- d
- Existing usable cutlery (pieces)
Use the units shown. A list keeps the order in which you enter its values. The symbol ^ means “raised to the power of”.
Assumptions & limits
Assumptions & limits
- Cutlery issued at interval start and returned after whole wash-cycle intervals; no initial dirty stock. Supported limits: All numeric inputs and computed intermediates must remain finite. Supported numeric input magnitude is zero or 1e-12 through 1e12 in absolute value; reject values outside this bounded range. All lists/JSON record tables are limited to 100 records unless a stricter bound is stated; reject malformed record arity and wrong member types. All numeric values must be finite. Lists contain at most 100 records; required lists must be nonempty. Rates, probabilities and fractions are entered as fractions, not percentages; fractions must be between 0 and 1. Use a single consistent user-selected currency for all amounts; no exchange-rate conversion.
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