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Back in the days before personal computers, actuaries relied solely on published tables for their calculations. These were not just the mortality tables, but monetary functions of these tables known as commutation factors. My old student tables from 1980 list commutation and other factors at discount rates of 4%, 6% and 8% (the latter rate seems almost comically high by current standards).
The cascade model of mortality
It is often instructive to look at mortality models where the parameters have an underlying meaning in a process.