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Line 9: A '''continuous variable''' is a variable such that there are possible values between any two values. For example, a variable over a non-empty range of the [[real number]]s is continuous, if it can take on any value in that range.<ref>{{cite journal \|last1=Brzychczy \|first1=Stanisaw \|last2=Gorniewicz \|first2=Lech \|title=Continuous and discrete models of neural systems in infinite-dimensional abstract spaces \|journal=Neurocomputing \|date=2011 \|volume=74 \|issue=17 \|pages=2711–2715 \|doi=10.1016/j.neucom.2010.11.005}}</ref> Methods of [[calculus]] are often used in problems in which the variables are continuous, for example in continuous [[optimization]] problems.<ref>{{Cite book \|last1=Griva \|first1=Igor \|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/236082842 \|title=Linear and nonlinear optimization \|last2=Nash \|first2=Stephen \|last3=Sofer \|first3=Ariela\|author3-link= Ariela Sofer \|publisher=Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics \|year=2009 \|isbn=978-0-89871-661-0 \|edition=2nd \|___location=Philadelphia \|pages=7 \|language=en \|oclc=236082842}}</ref>

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