Lithium has three electrons. If it loses two one remains. What is this formula telling us?

锂原子有三个电子，如果它失去两个,剩下一个，那么这个式子告诉了我们什么？

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It seems like a logical extension of that formula to three assets and you can easily see how to extend it to four or more assets, it's just the logical extension of that.

这样就将前个公式推导为三个资产的情况,显而易见,你们可以将其运用到四个乃至更多资产的情况下，这只是对原始公式一个推导罢了。

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