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Equation 1 · Part 7 · The Real Economics of Shipping a Model to a Device

addition

TCdistill=Cdistill+Q⋅cstudent,TC_{\mathrm{distill}} = C_{\mathrm{distill}} + Q \cdot c_{\mathrm{student}},
addition

What this part means

Add the term after the plus sign to the term or group before it.

Its job in the formula

Add the term after the plus sign to the term or group before it.

The passage around this formula

That gap explains why distillation investment almost never fails its own break-even test once a product actually ships. Write the total cost of training and then serving a distilled student model as TCdistill=Cdistill+Q⋅cstudentTC_{\mathrm{distill}} = C_{\mathrm{distill}} + Q \cdot c_{\mathrm{student}}. against the cost of simply continuing to serve the teacher directly for the same query volume,

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Addition combines quantities; subtraction measures the signed difference between them. Parentheses show what is combined before the rest of the expression is evaluated.

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