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Updated introduction of the term "seat" in APF
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### Request Width
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The above description of concurrency management is the baseline story.
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In it, all requests have equal "width": each takes up one "seat", one
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unit of concurrency.
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In it, all requests have equal "width": each takes up one _unit of
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concurrency_, which we call a "seat" because this is similar to how
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each passenger takes up one of the fixed supply of seats on a train or
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aircraft.
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But some requests take up more than one seat. Some of these are **list**
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requests that the server estimates will return a large number of

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