Equation 12 · Part 10 · Codex vs Claude Code: A Systems Comparison, Not a Benchmark Beauty Contest
Numerator: W_useful(n)
What this part means
The complete quantity above the fraction bar.
Its job in the formula
seful(n) occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.
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The passage around this formula
The important metric is not maximum concurrent workers. It is useful independent work per coordination token. For n workers, . G(n) can decline when workers rediscover shared context, return verbose summaries, edit overlapping files, or rely on inconsistent assumptions. Start parallelism with read-heavy mapping, test analysis, security review, and documentation verification. Isolate writers in worktrees and keep a single owner for global invariants.
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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