Equation 1 · Part 9 · Why Claude Code Delegates to Subagents, and What That Actually Buys You
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What this part means
A raised number can be a power. When it is a label or bound, it selects a case or the upper limit of a sum; the formula’s structure distinguishes these uses.
Its job in the formula
A raised mark can be a power or an index. Its position and the surrounding notation determine which.
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The passage around this formula
This is the specific problem a subagent is built to solve, and Claude Code’s own documentation gives a concrete, numeric illustration of the effect rather than an abstract claim about it. In a worked session example, a subagent delegated to research a piece of session-timeout handling reads three files totalling 6,100 tokens of raw source, entirely inside its own isolated window — “None of this touches your main context,” the documentation notes of the reads — and returns a single 420-token summary to the parent conversation, which the documentation flags directly: “That’s the context savings” [ 2 ] . The parent’s window absorbs an addition roughly a fourteenth the size of what was actually…
Learn the underlying idea
An exponent tells how a base is used in multiplication. In x³, x is the base and 3 is the exponent: x³ = x × x × x.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
These citations provide research context; check each source for the exact claim it supports.