The partition function, also called the sumoverstates, It plays an important role in the evaluation of thermodynamic functions and in the derivation of distribution functions.
配分函数，也称状态和函数。 对于热力学函数的获得及在分布函数的导出中拌演着重要角色。
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But we can determine what that constant is, because we know that if we sumover all the possible states, the molecule has to be in some state, right?
我们可以确定这个常数，因为我们知道，当我们把所有的态加起来之后，粒子必定处于某个状态，对吗？
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In general we would sumover all the available states.