Equation 10 · Part 2 · The Bandwidth of Culture: Transmission Fidelity to 2100
subscript
subscript
What this part means
The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.
Its job in the formula
A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.
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The passage around this formula
Here is the stock of cultural complexity in circulation at time t ; [0,1] is the transmission-fidelity coefficient — the share of that survives one round of copying, the same quantity Henrich’s Tasmania case shows collapsing when the effective transmitting population shrinks; is genuinely new human innovation entering the pool; and is loss from forgetting, obsolescence, or population decline. This is the formal skeleton underneath everything in the two sections above: print and the internet acted mainly by raising and the volume can reach an audience with; the telegraph and broadcast acted mainly by collapsing the delay between an addition to and its…
Learn the underlying idea
A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.
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