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If it took 8 men 10 hours to build a wall, how long would it take 4 men to build it?

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    Well, that depends on the men building it. 1 trump can't build a wall, I doubt 8 could even start, so 4 would take eternity.
  • 0
    Ideally 20, but in reality each person is not doing identical work, They might have formed a chain with each person doing 1 step. So, 4 men might be more inefficient and take much longer than 20.
  • 1
    Also, more people means more politics, so, it might take even less.
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    Also, if it only requires 4 men, then, in those 8 men, 4 are extra and are not adding to productivity, so, It might take same amount of time.
  • 5
    They won't get the wall built at all because the four fired men were the actual workers. Now you're left with a finance clerk, a project manager, an HR drone, and the CEO.
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    ~7. There are 3 people working and another 1 reviewing all the wall merges and seams. However, that reviewer is holding everyone back, because some seams seem too loose or with off pattern and the 3 have to fine-tune all their work according to the comments, and to work on merging the separately built segments [also solving all the occurring conflicts. All off them - not just wall-related].

    It's naive to expect 4x less time, because higher concurrency introduces more synchronization and more context switches. So I guess it would take 7-ish hours. Similar case to 3 workers. Whereas 2 workers might be more efficient
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    @theabbie it will take 0 hours because it's alredy build😂😂
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