Equation 119 · Part 4 · The Bit Comes Back Before the Bearing
subscript
subscript
What this part means
The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.
Its job in the formula
A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.
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The passage around this formula
A third, more uncomfortable check is what the toy model of the previous section actually implies at the numbers already computed: 3.5\, , or / 28.2 , for the solar-mass hole above. Taking = 1 as an illustrative, explicitly assumed per-quantum information content, a modest tolerance = 0.1\, (about six degrees) gives / = 100 , so 12.4\, and +8.9\, : the compass is the slower debt, as the title claims. But a coarser tolerance, = 0.5\, (about twenty-nine degrees), gives / = 4 , so 0.50\, and …
Learn the underlying idea
A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.
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