A new paper addresses The Urinal Problem: "A man walks into a men’s room and observes n empty urinals. Which urinal should he pick so as to maximize his chances of maintaining privacy, i.e., minimize the chance that someone will occupy a urinal beside him? In this paper, we attempt to answer this question under a variety of models for standard men’s room behavior." Applicability to women's commode stalls is also discussed.
https://people.scs.carleton.ca/~kranakis/Papers/urinal.pdf
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