@evan I'm studying math for the fun of it, and just popped this question into an AI ... with that being said, it came back with:

The Subadditive Property : For a set S with elements {a1, a2, ..., an}, if no element is larger than all the other elements combined, then we can write this property as:

ai ≤ ∑_{j ≠ i} aj

This means that each element ai in the set is smaller or equal to the sum of all other elements.

The name for this specific mathematical concept is called Subadditivity ...

(Language model used was llama3.1)

@evan I would tend to disagree ... it really does depend on the use-case.

Someone might ask "I need to start a fire". Ok, why not just use a match?

And their reply is "well it takes 37 days to get approval or a match, red-tape, paperwork, and bureaucracy" ...

Ahh then, you don't have a fire-starting problem, you have a organizational-efficiency problem.

@jpmens it makes more sense if you think of 12 as the 0th hour... (0-11am, 0-11pm).