I'm not sure that the assumption that F (n) is a monotonically increasing function is correct. The comedic value measured by the reaction of the audience of ISIHAC should reach a maximum and start to decrease before reaching the maximum number of stations and another variable called, perhaps, attention _span needs to be introduced based on the ambient temperature of the room, the point in the digestive cycle of each audience member and the proximity of the time to the evening rush hour.