The idea that I want to develop is that the history of finance is a history of discrete inventions.

我想详述的观点是,金融学的历史由一项又一项技术发明组成。

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The question is can I show you, from an energetic standpoint, that the crystal is favored over having the discrete set of pairs?

我展示你的问题是，从能量的观点出发，晶体倾向于,形成分散的一系列的对？

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You have discrete random variables, like the one I just defined, or there are also--which take on only a finite number of values-- and we have continuous random variables that can take on any number of values along a continuum.

就像刚定义的,是一个离散型随机变量,随机变量还可以有无限种取值,也就是连续型随机变量,随机变量可以取某一区间的一切值

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