To find examples and explanations on the internet at the elementary calculus level, try googling the phrase "continuous extension" (or variations of it, such as "extension by continuity") …

5 days ago · Both discrete and continuous variables generally do have changing values—and a discrete variable can vary continuously with time. I am quite aware that discrete variables are …

Aug 19, 2022 · The MIT supplementary course notes you linked to give — and use — the following (non-standard) definition: We say a function is continuous if its domain is an interval, …

12 Following is the formula to calculate continuous compounding A = P e^(RT) Continuous Compound Interest Formula where, P = principal amount (initial investment) r = annual interest …

Intuitively, a continuous function is allowed to misbehave at the endpoints of an open interval (because it doesn't have to be defined at the endpoints), but it must behave itself on a closed …

A function is "differentiable" if it has a derivative. A function is "continuous" if it has no sudden jumps in it. Until today, I thought these were merely two equivalent definitions of the same c...

Dec 28, 2015 · Typically the range of a continuous random variable is $\mathbb {R}$, $ [0,\infty)$, or some interval $ [a,b]$. Examples of continuous random distributions are the normal …

Some people like discrete mathematics more than continuous mathematics, and others have a mindset suited more towards continuous mathematics - people just have different taste and …

May 10, 2019 · Of course, the CDF of the always-zero random variable $0$ is the right-continuous unit step function, which differs from the above function only at the point of discontinuity at $x=0$.

Jan 27, 2014 · To understand the difference between continuity and uniform continuity, it is useful to think of a particular example of a function that's continuous on $\mathbb R$ but not …