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==Continuous time==

In contrast, '''continuous time''' views variables as having a particular value only for an [[infinitesimal]]ly short amount of time. Between any two points in time there are an [[infinity|infinite]] number of other points in time. The variable "time" ranges over the entire [[real number line]], or depending on the contextconext, over some subset of it such as the non-negative reals. Thus time is viewed as a [[continuous variable]].

A '''continuous signal''' or a '''continuous-time signal''' is a varying [[quantity]] (a [[signal (information theory)|signal]])