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Equation 37 · Part 17 · The Bit Comes Back Before the Bearing

Numerator: 1

Var⁡g^  ≥  1FQ[ρrad(g)],tG(δ)  =  min⁡{ t:Var⁡g^∣R∪Ct≤δ2 }.\operatorname{Var}\hat g \;\ge\; \frac{1}{F_Q\big[\rho_{\mathrm{rad}}(g)\big]}, \qquad t_G(\delta) \;=\; \min\Big\{\,t : \operatorname{Var}\hat g\big|_{R\cup C_t} \le \delta^2\,\Big\}.
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The complete quantity above the fraction bar.

Its job in the formula

1 occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.

The passage around this formula

For the compass, returned has to mean something else, because g is a continuous parameter and no channel can reproduce an unknown continuous value exactly. The honest promise is metrological: the same agent, using the same R∪\cup CtC_t , applies the best available measurement and estimator g^\hat g , and the achievable mean-squared error is bounded below by the quantum Cramér-Rao bound, Var⁡g^  ≥  1FQ[ρrad(g)],tG(δ)  =  min⁡{ t:Var⁡g^∣R∪Ct≤δ2 }\operatorname{Var}\hat g \;\ge\; \frac{1}{F_Q\big[\rho_{\mathrm{rad}}(g)\big]}, \qquad t_G(\delta) \;=\; \min\Big\{\,t : \operatorname{Var}\hat g\big|_{R\cup C_t} \le \delta^2\,\Big\}. FQF_Q is the quantum Fisher information of the radiation’s reduced state with respect to g ; it carries units of g−2g^{-2} , i.e. inverse radians squared, and since g is already dimensionless, FQF_Q is a pure number. δ\delta is the alignment tolerance the observer has decided to demand, also in…

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A fraction a/b means a divided by b. The top number is the numerator; the bottom number is the denominator, and it cannot be zero.

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