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Equation 14 · Part 1 · How Fast Can a Horizon Learn Which Path You Took?

Symbol V

V=0.5V=0.5
VV

What this part means

V is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

Its job in the formula

V is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

The passage around this formula

That gap is not semantic. At V=0.5 , the Holevo ceiling is about 0.811 bits. The minimum-error binary decision yields about 0.646 bits. A sentence saying “the horizon contains 0.811 bits, therefore Bob can read 0.811 bits” has silently replaced an upper bound with a decoder.

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