Equation 78 · Part 3 · 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
is exact [ 4 ] . Fixing m=2 (a single qubit) and letting n — the effective size of everything else the qubit could be entangled with — grow gives = 0.5095 nats, = 0.6465 nats, and = 0.6814 nats, closing in on the ceiling 2 = 0.6931 nats. The residual gap to that ceiling shrinks by a factor of 3.94 when n quadruples from 4 to 16 , and by 3.98 when it quadruples again from 16 to 64 — converging, as more radiation-sized dimension is added two qubits at a time, on a clean factor of four per doubling of collected qubits, or two per single qubit. This is an exact, hand-computable corroboration of the folklore “each extra…
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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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