"utilon" meaning in English

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          "name": "Units of measure",
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          "ref": "2011 November 13, Radovan Garabík, “In support of Keith”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <j9o6m2$4kf$1@speranza.aioe.org>",
          "text": "However, you have to realize that you should measure the costs and payoffs in utilons, not in dollars. $1 is almost infinitesimally small (in utilons), while $1M payoff is huge - it is perfectly rational to buy the ticket.",
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          "ref": "2019 June 18, Agustin Lebron, The Laws of Trading: A Trader's Guide to Better Decision-Making for Everyone, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, page 63",
          "text": "A trader or trading firm having zero wealth, I've already said, should be considered infinitely bad. So therefore assign -∞ utilons to zero wealth. Conversely, infinite wealth should probably have infinity utilons, though large numbers might behave oddly.",
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        "A hypothetical unit measuring satisfaction."
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        "(economics) A hypothetical unit measuring satisfaction."
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        "economics",
        "science",
        "sciences"
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          "ref": "2011 November 13, Radovan Garabík, “In support of Keith”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <j9o6m2$4kf$1@speranza.aioe.org>",
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          "text": "A trader or trading firm having zero wealth, I've already said, should be considered infinitely bad. So therefore assign -∞ utilons to zero wealth. Conversely, infinite wealth should probably have infinity utilons, though large numbers might behave oddly.",
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        "(economics) A hypothetical unit measuring satisfaction."
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  "word": "utilon"
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