And that's fine, because inside of curly braces can you redeclare variables with the same name if you intend to quote unquote shadow the previous variable.

那是可以的，因为,在花括号里面，你可以重新定义一个,相同名字的变量,如果你想引用之前的变量。

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in this global environment.

这里定义了一个全局变量。

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For example, the experiment could be tossing a coin, I will call the outcome heads the number one, and I'll call the outcome tails the number zero, so I've just defined a random variable.

比方说,抛硬币的试验,我将正面向上的结果对应数字1,反面向上的结果对应数字0,这样我就定义了一个随机变量

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Well, this block here on the left that I came counter counter=0 up with arbitrarily sets a variable called counter equal to 0 and then it forever says that counters value 1 and then it changes the counter by 1.

大家看一下左边的这一段代码,其中有一个随便定义的变量,它会一直显示counter的值,每显示一次，counter加。

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You have discrete random variables, like the one I just defined, or there are also--which take on only a finite number of values-- and we have continuous random variables that can take on any number of values along a continuum.

就像刚定义的,是一个离散型随机变量,随机变量还可以有无限种取值,也就是连续型随机变量,随机变量可以取某一区间的一切值

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So declare as we'll say a variable, a placeholder called counter.

首先要定义一个名为counter的，变量。

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The basic definition-- the expected value of some random variable x--E--I guess I should have said that a random variable is a quantity that takes on value.

最基本的定义,某一个随机变量X的期望值E,我应该提到过,随机变量是一个可以取值的数

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