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Can you point me to the Wikipedia page for the Theory of Optimal Workplace Layout?

Because if this is a theoretical problem, with clear definitions, parameters, boundary conditions and objectives, which has already been solved, so that non-experts [such as CN] can just look up the solution, then I'd also like to see this!

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Surely you understand that not all knowledge is in Wikipedia?

Your second paragraph is a total strawman.

Surely you understand you were being challenged on the existence of an established theoretical solution, not on the existence of a literal link to Wikipedia specifically?

Look to the straw man in your own eye.

No, he hit the bullseye.

If you cannot mathematically define all the variables and boundary conditions, it is not a theoretical problem.

Branches of science concerned human behaviour dont have theoretical problems.

This is a weird mathematical fundamentalism that I haven’t experienced in a while. Actually since I went to study philosophy with analytic philosophers.

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