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Count Your Tokens Before You Paste: Practical LLM Token Math

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You paste a long doc into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and one of three things happens: the answer ignores the end of it, you hit a context limit, or the API bill is bigger than you expected. All three come down to the same number: tokens . Here's the practical version of token maths: what a token is,…

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  1. 2026-10-13 06:10 · DEV Community — AI
    Count Your Tokens Before You Paste: Practical LLM Token Math

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