So in other words, every time I merge the point that I kept emphasizing verbally there and that I'm only touching each number once, means that we have to account for the amount of time it takes to merge N which is going to be just N. Now, this is again one of these cyclical answers.

换言之，之前在做合并时,我不停地强调,对每个数字我只碰了一次，这就是说,我们要记录合并所花的时间量,也就是这里的,这又是一种循环性的答案。

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So the sign of the number is adequate to keep track of my motion.

所以数字的符号对于记录运动足够了

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As reported contemporaneously in 2000,the number was -3.1% but if you look at the number reported for 2005, because bad records had disappeared and good records had been added, all of a sudden the average experience for that year went up to +1.2%.

000年期的公告中这个数字为负3.1%,但是如果你去查2005年公告的数字,坏记录已经调整而消失,有利的投资记录被加入,转瞬之间,年平均收益升至1.2%

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That's when a new manager appears subsequent to the beginning of the ten-year period; they'll put not only the new numbers in, but they'll take the history of the new manager and put that history into the database.

即在10年期开始后,每出现一位新的基金经理,不仅是新的业绩数字会进入数据库,新经理的历史记录,也会填入数据库

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