Equation 2 · Part 1 · Why Cost and Latency Belong in the Evaluation Score, Not a Footnote
Symbol c
What this part means
the expected cost.
Its job in the formula
c is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol c→Article meaning
Where the article explains it
Treat a single evaluation run as producing a summary triple: a success indicator or rate s , an expected cost c , and an expected latency l .
The passage around this formula
Treat a single evaluation run as producing a summary triple: a success indicator or rate s , an expected cost c , and an expected latency l . A leaderboard rank is a total order — every agent gets exactly one position — built by applying some function to that triple, almost always a function that looks only at s and discards c and l entirely, or folds them into a secondary table nobody reads before making a decision.
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