Equation 22 · Part 2 · The EV Formula Is an Exact Production Function Trainers Solved by Accident
Symbol y^ast
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st is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
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st is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
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…both partial derivatives stay strictly positive everywhere in the feasible region — 83.325 for Attack and 98.725 for Speed, evaluated at the corner itself — the true optimum is not a compromise but the corner: = = 252 , both stats pinned to their individual ceilings, precisely because the model would keep demanding more of each if the ceiling did not exist. That corner is the exact allocation Smogon’s Swords Dance spread uses, arrived at independently by a community of players optimizing by feel…
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