How Much Fun is a Barrel of Monkeys Easy, no?
Since fun is not an actual integer value, but rather a quotient, this formula will no longer work, since it would most likely vastly overstate the amount of fun a barrel of monkeys are. For example, if a single monkey makes time fly 20% faster, giving a fun quotient of 1.2, the above equation would say two monkeys make time fly 140% faster! While I don’t doubt two monkeys may be fun, that may be a bit of an overstatement. A more accurate estimate would be: Fun Quotient of a Barrel of Monkeys = ((Fun Quotient of 1 Monkey – 1) * Number of Monkeys) + 1 However, even then, one must consider the law of diminishing returns. I’d suspect that once you start passing 100 monkeys or so, it’s pretty hard to get too much more fun out of them. All your primate fun potential will have been exhausted, in a kind of Amdahl’s Law sort of way. In order to determine this, further experiments should be carried out to determine at what rate additional monkeys truly do increase fun levels, by performing exper
