Inflation would be the more discreet way to achieve this end. But it would erode the value of substantial stocks of private and public savings.

通货膨胀将是实现这一目标的较隐蔽方式。但它会损害私人和公共部门巨额储蓄存量的价值。

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And when we talk about l it is a quantum number, so because it's a quantum number, we know that it can only have discreet values, it can't just be any value we want, it's very specific values.

当我们讲，l是一个量子数时，因为它是量子数，我们知道，它只能去分立的值，它不能取到所有的数，它取一些确定的数。

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