Snyder, who spent four years on turbine engines at a Cat subsidiary, ran dozens of two- and three-week-long simulations on a minisupercomputer, crunching 10 million equations each time, to design a new nozzle that would turn insulin into the right-size droplets.

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It doesn't seem that the people who plan call centers or design elevators have crunched the value of time into their equations.

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