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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Waiting girl sculpture at a bus stop in Aachen, Germany The wait/walk dilemma occurs when waiting for a bus at a bus stop, when the duration of the wait may exceed the time needed to arrive at a destination by another means, especially walking. Some work on this problem was featured in the 2008 "Year in Ideas" issue of The New York Times Magazine.[1] The dilemma has been studied in an unpublished report entitled "Walk Versus Wait: The Lazy Mathematician Wins."[2][3] Anthony B. Morton's paper "A Note on Walking Versus Waiting" supports and extends Chen…
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