Say, you bought an annuity for $200,000 and your monthly income is $1,000. Your annual income is 12 times $1,000 which equals $12,000. Now take $12,000 and divide that by your premium (or, $200,000). The result is 6.00% which is the cash flow or payout rate. The cash ...
218. The road divides here. 这条路在这里分岔。 219. Those are watermelons. 那些是西瓜。 220. What a nice day it is! 今天天气真好! 221. What's wrong with you? 你哪里不对劲? 222. You are a chicken. 你是个胆小鬼。 223. A lovely day,isn't it? 好天气,是吗? 224. He is collec...
340. Don‘t dream away your time. 不要虚度光阴。 341. Don‘t keep me waiting long. 不要让我等得太久。 342. He has a remarkable memory. 他有惊人的记忆力。 343. He has completed the task. 他完成了这个任务。 344. He has quite a few friends. 他有不少的朋友。 345. He is capabl...
A perfect square number or square number is a natural number that is the square of an integer. In other words, it is the product of some integer with itself. For example, 4 is a square number, since it equals 22. Number 4 can also be represented as (-2)2. But since we are talki...
[− 1,1] interval if all figures of profits are positive. It corresponds to -1 when all the profits concentrate on firms with no debt. Negative values imply that the profit-debt distribution curve lies above the equality line. Conversely, if the index equals 1, all the profits ...
One school of thought divides the 10 digits in half, letting {0, 1, 2, 3, 4} round down, and {5, 6, 7, 8, 9} round up; thus 12.5 would round to 13. This is how rounding works on Digital Equipment Corporation's VAX computers. Another school of thought says that since numbers...
Given a segment, we say that it is bisected by a ray when the latter divides the former into two equal parts. Since a linear pair of angles are formed in the interception point between the segment and the ray, we have that their sum is {eq}180^\...
“dialogue of knowledges” is much more intersectional than what STS usually takes as dialogue. It foregrounds epistemological pluralism in which the “literate” and “peasant” knowledge are seen as equals (Costa et al.2000). It also foregrounds the intersectionality between indigenous knowledge, ...
415. “Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”― Oliver Goldsmith 416. “Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero.”― Amit Ray 417. “Friendship is the best kind of ship.”― Jennifer Lane ...
product of all the link weights (pij) included in the path. For patches close enough,\( p_{ij}^{*} \)is reduced to the direct dispersal probabilitypij, but for more distant patches the ‘best path’ passes through stepping stone patches. Wheni=j, the\( p_{ij}^{*} \)equals 1....