Equation 8 · Part 5 · Measuring Claude Code and Agentic Development Tools: Evidence, Benchmarks, and Uncertainty
Symbol τ
What this part means
the empirical doubling period.
Its job in the formula
τ occurs below the fraction bar. The quantity above the bar is divided by this expression; zero is excluded as a denominator.
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Where the article explains it
where T(t) is the time-horizon at date t and is the empirical doubling period.
The passage around this formula
Treated as a growth model rather than a guarantee, the trend can be written as . where T(t) is the time-horizon at date t and is the empirical doubling period. This is a compact way to state a real, fitted regularity — it is not a physical law, and the paper’s own authors flag that the fit is over a specific task suite combining two internal benchmarks and a small set of newly written short tasks, not over arbitrary…
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