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Equation 17 · Part 3 · The Economics of Codex: Tokens, Sandboxes, Review Time, and Software Throughput

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ΔE[L]\Delta E[L]
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What this part means

Capital delta attached to a quantity marks a difference between two values of that quantity; the article’s sign convention determines the order.

Its job in the formula

Capital delta attached to a quantity marks a difference between two values of that quantity; the article’s sign convention determines the order.

The passage around this formula

Let sandbox cost be CSC_S and reduction in expected loss be Δ\Delta E[L] . Isolation is directly favorable when

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Learn the underlying idea

Addition combines quantities; subtraction measures the signed difference between them. Parentheses show what is combined before the rest of the expression is evaluated.

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