So, whenever you and your friends go out to dinner, you all share your food by picking up your plates and handing them around the table so everyone can get a taste. When you've got four people at the table, that's no problem, you can make one circuit of the table really quickly and finish your meal and the plates can get back to the kitchen to get washed and reused.
But, say you've got a really big party. And everyone wants a taste of everyone's dinner still. So, you pass the plates around the table just like you're used to doing, but since there are so many of you, it takes the plate forever to make its way around, and by the time it's only halfway around your group, the restaurant says, "Um, guys, can you speed this up? We totally need the plates."
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So, whenever you and your friends go out to dinner, you all share your food by picking up your plates and handing them around the table so everyone can get a taste. When you've got four people at the table, that's no problem, you can make one circuit of the table really quickly and finish your meal and the plates can get back to the kitchen to get washed and reused.
But, say you've got a really big party. And everyone wants a taste of everyone's dinner still. So, you pass the plates around the table just like you're used to doing, but since there are so many of you, it takes the plate forever to make its way around, and by the time it's only halfway around your group, the restaurant says, "Um, guys, can you speed this up? We totally need the plates."