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Intuitively, a continuous function y = f(x) is one where small changes in x result in small changes in y.
More rigorously, consider the function y = f(x) defined on the domain D to the codomain C where both D and C are subsets of R.
Then f(x) is continuous at a point p in D if the limit of f(x) as x approaches p within D is f(p).
The function is said to be continuous is it is continuous at every point in its domain.
The domain and codomain of f can be extended to multiple dimensions provided a suitable metric (eg Pythagorean distance) is used.
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