Equation 35 · Part 2 · The Economics of Codex: Tokens, Sandboxes, Review Time, and Software Throughput
Symbol n
What this part means
the real selection costs grow with.
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n is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Real selection costs grow with n .
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Costs include duplicated context, token use, environment runtime, merge conflict, synchronization, and human attention. If n workers each have cost c and independent single-attempt success p , best-of- n success is 1-(1-p)^n only when an oracle selector identifies a success. Real selection costs grow with n .
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