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Equation 5 · Part 1 · The Hidden Infrastructure Bill Behind Every RAG Answer

Symbol p_store

pstorep_{\mathrm{store}}
pstorep_{\mathrm{store}}

What this part means

psp_store is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

Its job in the formula

psp_store is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

The passage around this formula

where S is index size in gigabytes, r(S) is Pinecone’s documented read units per query as a function of that size, Q is monthly query volume, and pstorep_{\mathrm{store}} , prup_{\mathrm{ru}} , and prerankp_{\mathrm{rerank}} are the published per-unit rates given earlier. Set against it, the cost of skipping retrieval and instead inlining a fixed block of extra context on every single call is

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