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Line 8: ::* "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. [[User:Michael Hardy\|Michael Hardy]] ([[User talk:Michael Hardy\|talk]]) 15:12, 30 April 2015 (UTC) :The article later has "the number of permitted values is either finite or countably infinite" for discrete. That seems more rigorous. Common objection is, typical motivating examples of continuous variables are time and other physical measurements. Common reply is, we can usefully model them as uncountable, without claiming the model is literally true to actual infinity. --[[User:GodMadeTheIntegers\|GodMadeTheIntegers]] ([[User talk:GodMadeTheIntegers\|talk]]) 15:52, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

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