But they're accountable and we can list all possible values when they're discrete and form a probability weighted average of the outcomes.

但随机变量是离散的话,我们可以把所有的可能值列出来,然后算出加权平均值

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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。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Every game we've seen in the class so far has had a discrete number of strategies.

目前为止我们遇到的博弈,每个策略都是不连续的

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The Internet won't be seen as a discrete activity for a PC, but as a sort of power grid, enhancing everything from small appliances to TV and telephony.

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In short, a business that is already outside normal anti-trust law (thanks to an ancient ruling that treats each game as a discrete activity within a single state, and thus exempt from the laws of interstate commerce) would become even more like a cartel.

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Naturally, the usefulness of the slicing and dicing of data depends on the availability of contextual information, even for a discrete current event like a 90-minute debate.

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