The work in this step is just the area under this curve.

而这一步过程的功,是这条曲线下面的面积。

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Number of policies doesn't affect the means but it affects that standard deviation, so it becomes very collapsed and this is the basic core idea of insurance.

保单的数量并不影响其均值,但是会影响其标准差,所以这条曲线非常陡峭,而这就是保险的核心原理

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The force may taper off, the force may not be given by a straight line, but for modest deformations, every spring will have a linear regime in which the force is linearly proportional to the stretching.

它产生的力可能会渐渐消失,力的曲线可能不是一条直线,而有轻微的弯曲,每个弹簧都有一个线性区间,在这一区间内,力和伸长量是线性关系

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