DiscountFactor.md (417B)
1 # Discount Factor 2 3 L2 4 5 **Definition:** The discount factor in RL is the value gamma we use to describe how much or little we care about long term rewards with respect to the value function. 6 7 The discount factor is to the power of the steps away you are from that reward so if gamma = .5 then we see we only care .5x as much about the next step as the current and then .25x as much about the one after that and so on.