Equation 1 · Part 12 · How Claude Code's Memory Actually Persists Across Sessions
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What this part means
A raised number can be a power. When it is a label or bound, it selects a case or the upper limit of a sum; the formula’s structure distinguishes these uses.
Its job in the formula
A raised mark can be a power or an index. Its position and the surrounding notation determine which.
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The passage around this formula
Anthropic ships an interactive walkthrough of a representative session specifically to make this loading concrete, breaking startup context down by component with illustrative token counts: a system prompt around 4,200 tokens, an auto-memory index around 680 tokens, environment information around 280 tokens, MCP tool names around 120 tokens with full schemas deferred until needed, then a global CLAUDE.md around 320 tokens and a project CLAUDE.md around 1,800 tokens in that particular worked example [ 4 ] . The documentation is careful to call these “representative numbers” rather than fixed constants — actual figures move with every project’s own files — but the shape they describe is stable…
Learn the underlying idea
An exponent tells how a base is used in multiplication. In x³, x is the base and 3 is the exponent: x³ = x × x × x.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
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