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Equation 5 · Part 1 · Ten Failure Modes That Define Production Tool-Protocol Integrations

Symbol i

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ii

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close to zero, because nothing in the base protocol gives a server a caller-supplied key to deduplicate against.

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i 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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Today, for most deployments, i is close to zero, because nothing in the base protocol gives a server a caller-supplied key to deduplicate against.

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The only term a protocol upgrade could move is i ; n and p are properties of the workload and the network. Today, for most deployments, i is close to zero, because nothing in the base protocol gives a server a caller-supplied key to deduplicate against.

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