Just the other day I was going to pop out and see if I could find a queue to join.
Having not seen any firm numbers on the actual number of people in the queue as yet, I thought I’d try and estimate it.
Let’s say the queue is on average 4 miles long at any given time and there’s approximately one person standing per meter. Then there’s 6437 meters in that space and that is also approximately the queue’s average capacity in people.
The queue takes about 8 hours on average.
Although some parts of the queue zigzag and some people stand in groups, so let’s round up a little and for arithmetic convenience say the queue holds on average 8000 people at any given time.
We can then say the throughput of the queue is approximately 1000 people per hour. The queue is open for about 4.5 days and 24 a day.
Therefore if we multiply all that together (hours per day* number of days*people per hour) we can approximate that by the end of the lying-in-state period, just over 100,000 people will have paid their respect to the queen.
Does this number sound right to you? What do you think?
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Just the other day I was going to pop out and see if I could find a queue to join.
Having not seen any firm numbers on the actual number of people in the queue as yet, I thought I’d try and estimate it.
Let’s say the queue is on average 4 miles long at any given time and there’s approximately one person standing per meter. Then there’s 6437 meters in that space and that is also approximately the queue’s average capacity in people.
The queue takes about 8 hours on average.
Although some parts of the queue zigzag and some people stand in groups, so let’s round up a little and for arithmetic convenience say the queue holds on average 8000 people at any given time.
We can then say the throughput of the queue is approximately 1000 people per hour. The queue is open for about 4.5 days and 24 a day.
Therefore if we multiply all that together (hours per day* number of days*people per hour) we can approximate that by the end of the lying-in-state period, just over 100,000 people will have paid their respect to the queen.
Does this number sound right to you? What do you think?