Equation 4 · Part 7 · Astra's 63%-Cheaper Claim Has to Beat a Price Disadvantage Nobody Mentions
Denominator: (1-s)(10) + s(0.25)
What this part means
The complete quantity below the fraction bar; it must be nonzero for this division.
Its job in the formula
(1-s)(10) + s(0.25) occurs below the fraction bar. The quantity above the bar is divided by this expression; zero is excluded as a denominator.
Full expression→Denominator: (1-s)(10) + s(0.25)→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
Call the cache-hit share s — the fraction of input tokens that are cache reads rather than fresh reads. The blended input-token cost per model, in dollars per million tokens, is (1-s) 10 + s r , where r is each model’s cache-read rate: $1.00 for Astra, $0.25 for Fable 5.1. The ratio of Astra’s blended input cost to Fable 5.1’s, at a given cache-hit share, is: . Run that ratio across a stated bracket rather than picking one number and presenting it as fact:
Learn the underlying idea
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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