Equation 26 · Part 1 · The Real Economics of Shipping a Model to a Device
Symbol U
What this part means
the least discussed term in this accounting and, at fleet scale, sometimes the largest.
Its job in the formula
U is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Where the article explains it
U is the least discussed term in this accounting and, at fleet scale, sometimes the largest.
The passage around this formula
U is the least discussed term in this accounting and, at fleet scale, sometimes the largest. It can be approximated as . the number of devices in the fleet, times the bytes pushed to each device per update, times the price per byte of moving that data. Amazon’s published…
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