It's a way of thinking about form that has more to do with individuality than it does with convention.

思考这种形式的方法，与传统习惯相比,与个性更有关系。

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So you have to understand that it's 360 a year because that's just a convention and everybody knows that it's just the way we quote prices.

所以折扣率以360天作为一年,是一项众所周知的传统,我们就此报价

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It's simply a convention established after the fact that allows us to organize material in ways that we can grapple with it ways that we can understand it.

这仅仅是在事后建立的一种惯例,好让我们组织材料,用容易整理的方式,用容易理解的方式

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If you drop the arrow, it's the usual convention, if you're talking about the length of the vector A.

如果你把箭头去掉,就表示矢量 A 的模长,这是约定俗成的

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