It's a popular cliche to say that you wait ages for a bus, and then three turn up at once. Is there any truth to this? Or is it a false impression formed because we notice coincidences more than other events? If true, are there laws governing this behaviour, and are there any natural phenomena that obey the same principles?The technical term for several buses arriving at once is "bunching", and the reason for it is quite simple.
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