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a flawed and clumsy definition

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In mathematics, variables are either continuous or discrete, depending on whether or not there are gaps between a value that the variable could take on and any other permitted values.

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Really? If a variable can assume any value except 0, then that's a gap. Does that make it discrete? Michael Hardy (talk) 14:52, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

. . . and notice the two alternatives: (1) "whether" (2) "or not". Which corresponds to "continuous" and which to "discrete"? If the reader thinks there's a tacit "respectively" then the first would be "continuous" since "continuous" was named before "discrete" in the opening sentence. Michael Hardy (talk) 15:12, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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