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Re:Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All by zshn25 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @10:47AM (#47793840)
Sorry, how did you calculate the 10.25B?
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Re:Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All by darrenf on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:06AM (#47794263)
> > The performance/intelligence is said to be about the same as the geometric mean of the total and active parameter counts. So, this model should be equivalent to a dense model with about 10.25 billion parameters.

> Sorry, how did you calculate the 10.25B?

The geometric mean of two numbers is the square root of their product. Square root of 105 (35*3) is ~10.25.

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