So, we should use that, but people in finance resist using that because it's a lower number and when you're advertising your return you want to make it look as big as possible.

所以我们应该用这个指标,但金融界反感使用几何平均,因为它比其他平均数都来得小,他们为自己的收益率做广告时,当然希望数字越大越好

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if you don't want to use that, you can also derive it as we did every time, it should intuitively make sense how we got there. But the exams are pretty short, so we don't want you doing that every time, so we'll save the 2 minutes and give you the equations directly, but it's still important to know how to use them.

吸收的和发射的，如果你不想用公式,你也可以每次都向我们这样推导它,很直观的就能得到结果，但考试时间很短，我们不希望你们每次都推导,所以我们会直告诉你，让你节省2分钟，但知道如何应用它十分重要。

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