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The authors reproduced the previously published "The Tokenizer Tax" table, with all 66 of 66 cells within 0.5% error; the average tax rate is 8.03x under cl100k_base (8.0x in the original paper) and 2.14x under o200k_base (2.1x in the original paper).
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