Without commenting on the wisdom of the plan above: what in earth are you talking about? You don't just announce the equation and say good luck. You'd announce each row or range of rows in order, the same way you do for boarding (or in boarding's case, as encapsulated by boarding groups).
The real issue would be compliance, not comprehension.
> The real issue would be compliance, not comprehension.
That's why I'm saying "good luck"
Those "equations" don't account for human factors like families traveling together, elderly who need help getting their luggage down, or a sick passenger.
You can't just throw out some mathematical solution to the problem and consider it solved, so what on earth were _they_ talking about?
It does attempt to with the rows at a time feature, and if this is the known unloading procedure makes it much more likely for a family to actually book a row rather than seats in front and behind.
The obvious exception is to make the kids just move when the adults do (clustering on the largest unit of adults).
However this is more like a 'family exception' than a back of the napkin description of the algorithm.
The real issue would be compliance, not comprehension.