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Equation 9 · Part 2 · The Logistics Tail: Sustainment as the Binding Constraint on Organised Force

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rmax⁡r_{\max}
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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.

The passage around this formula

Railways broke the radius. A locomotive burns coal or oil rather than the cargo it hauls, so the self-consumption term that produced rmax⁡r_{\max} collapses toward zero along the line of rail. What railways did not do was remove the constraint. They relocated it — from the whole length of the road to the points where load has to change carrier.

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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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