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I'll try to find more sources. While we may not like the vagueness, a published definition is better than our own.[[User:Brirush|Brirush]] ([[User talk:Brirush|talk]]) 17:59, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
== Not a dichotomy ==
I recognize this is a useful intuition for people beginning math (especially applied, especially stats), but the problem is that the actual formalisms disagree: discrete is trivially continuous. Look no further than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_space : we can give anything a topology and make it continuous. And this isn't actually that removed from stats: More advanced stats, e.g. working with arbitrary probability measures. uses highly related formalisms.
I don't want to derail, and especially don't want to get into a sub-field war, but at least calling out the various uses of the terminology and how they conflict would I think be useful.
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