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Equation 65 · Part 3 · The Bit Comes Back Before the Bearing

Symbol P^2

S=A/4ℓP2S = A/4\ell_P^2
P2P^2

What this part means

The square of P: multiply P by itself.

Its job in the formula

P2P^2 is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.

The passage around this formula

where the second equality for a Schwarzschild hole follows directly from Hawking’s temperature formula [ 7 ] and S = A/4ℓP2\ell_P^2 is the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy [ 6 ] . For a solar-mass hole, β\beta ≈\approx 1.24×\times10^{-4}\,s\mathrm s and ln⁡\ln S ≈\approx 177 , giving t∗t_* ≈\approx 3.5\,ms\mathrm{ms} — an exact evaluation of the stated formulas, illustrative of the scrambling scale and not a claim about any particular measured hole.

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An exponent tells how a base is used in multiplication. In x³, x is the base and 3 is the exponent: x³ = x × x × x.

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