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Symbol r
r is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
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The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
See an illustrated explanation →Denominator: 92
The complete quantity below the fraction bar; it must be nonzero for this division.
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xAI announced a doubling of the original cluster to 200,000 GPUs within roughly ninety days of the initial buildout, adding Nvidia H200s alongside the original H100s [ 16 ] . That kind of headline — “doubled in ninety-two days” — is easy to read two different ways, and the difference matters for judging how the next expansion phase should be interpreted. Read as a constant installation rate, doubling 100,000 GPUs to 200,000 over ninety-two days implies roughly . Read instead as a constant compounding rate — the assumption implicit whenever a “doubled again” claim is extrapolated forward — the same ninety-two-day doubling implies a daily multiplicative growth rate g solving…
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xAI announced a doubling of the original cluster to 200,000 GPUs within roughly ninety days of the initial buildout, adding Nvidia H200s alongside the original H100s [ 16 ] . That kind of headline — “doubled in ninety-two days” — is easy to read two different ways, and the difference matters for judging how the next expansion phase should be interpreted. Read as a constant installation rate, doubling 100,000 GPUs to 200,000 over ninety-two days implies roughly . Read instead as a constant compounding rate — the assumption implicit whenever a “doubled again” claim is extrapolated forward — the same ninety-two-day doubling implies a daily multiplicative growth rate g solving (1+g)^{92} = 2 , or
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