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If you throw n balls into n buckets at random, a bit over a third of the buckets will be empty, a bit over a third will have one ball, and the remaining quarter or so will have multiple balls.
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+### Time to double
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+From <https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee204/TheRuleof72.html>
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+If you've got a thing growing a X% per day, it'll take 72/X days to double in size, roughly.
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### Scale up, or scale out?
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From <http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~mastjjb/jeb/or/queue.html>
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