As before, as in the Downs or Hoteling model, we discussed already a few weeks ago, we're going to assume that voters are evenly spread along the line.

像之前一样,就像当斯或霍特林模型,我们几周前讨论的,我们将假设选民,平均分布在这条线上

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You try to design actually I'm going to come back to that in a second. It's like you're trying to use a hash function that spread things out pretty evenly. But the places you store into in those lists may have to themselves have a small list in there, and when you go to check something, you may have to do a linear search through the elements in that list.

你尝试着去设计,实际上过会儿我会回头讲解这个问题,类似于你需要用一个哈希函数,非常平均的将物体分发出去,但是在列表中你数据,映射到的地方可能会有自己的一小段列表，当你回头查找数据的时候,你可能需要在那一小段列表中做线性查找。

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In product placement, you might think when you're placing a gas station, you might think it would be nice if gas stations spread themselves evenly out over the town or out over the road.

在产品植入领域里,假设你在考虑设立一个加油站,你会想如果加油站,能均匀覆盖城镇每个角落,或者遍布整条公路那该多好

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