Let me write a function, in fact the literal thing I would do is to say, identify the things that change, give each of them a variable name because I want to refer to them, and then write a function that captures the rest of that computation just with those variable names inside.

让我来写个方法,实际上我的意思是，辨别出变化的东西,然后给它们逐个命名以区分,然后写一个用来计算,这些变量的,包括计算过程的方法。

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And then I'll create this function, d1 this distribution d 1, which will, whenever I call it, give me a random, a uniformly selected value between minus and plus volatility.

然后我会创建这个函数，这个概率分布，每次我调用这个函数的时候，他会给我返回一个随机的，按照均匀分布,从正负浮动值之间选择的值。

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Content is a function -or let me say practical language, the purpose, in other words, of communicating facts or of communicating at all, which we associate with practical language -is a function of poetic language.

他们认为，内容即是功能,实用语言的目的，就是交流，我们总是把交流和实用语言联系,但其实它也是诗歌语言的功能。

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