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Equation 33 · Part 1 · The Token Tax of Giving a Model More Tools

Symbol bars

sˉ\bar{s}
sˉ\bar{s}

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bars 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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…catalogue at once. Namespace explicitly, so a collision between two identically named tools is never the reason a well-retrieved shortlist still gets miscalled. And keep the schemas themselves lean, because a smaller sˉ\bar{s} is the one lever that helps regardless of how the other three are tuned. Giving a model more tools is not free, and the documentation and the benchmarks now agree closely enough on where the bill actually falls that “just add more tools” is no longer a defensible default — it is a choice…

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