Whole note of mensural notation, and this is the origin of the British name. The American name is a calque of the German . The Catalan, French and Spanish names for the note (meaning "round") derive from the fact that the was distinguished by its round stemless shape, which is true as well of the modern form (in contrast to the double whole note or shorter values with stems). The Greek name means "whole". Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese names mean "whole note". Whole note In music, a whole note (American) or semibreve (British) is a note represented by a hollow oval
Time value of money is to emphasize that "u" is a "parameter" (fixed in any instance—the time when the cash flow will occur), while "t" is a "variable" (time). In other words, future cash flows are exponentially discounted (exp) by the sum (integral, formula_44) of the future discount rates (formula_45 for future, "r"("v") for discount rates), while past cash flows are worth 0 (formula_46), because they have already occurred. Note that the value "at" the moment of a cash flow is not well-defined – there is a discontinuity at that point, and one can use a convention (assume cash flows have already occurred, or