Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kingman's formula

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.20 in modern English

Syllables: king-man's -for-mu-la
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An approximation for the mean waiting time in a G/G/1 queue.

Etymology

First published by John Kingman in his 1961 paper The single server queue in heavy traffic.

Questions

What does kingman's formula mean?: An approximation for the mean waiting time in a G/G/1 queue.
Where does kingman's formula come from?: First published by John Kingman in his 1961 paper The single server queue in heavy traffic.

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