Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > Depends on how you define "discontinuous".
The mathematical way, of course. For any epsilon > 0, etc. > Catastrophe theory is full of discontinuous changes in state. Animal > (by which I include human) behaviour often displays discontinuous > changes. So does chemistry: one minute the grenade is sitting there, > stable as can be, the next it's an expanding cloud of gas and metal > fragments. If that transition from grenade to gas cloud takes a minute (or even a femtosecond), it's not a mathematical discontinuity. The other examples work out about the same way. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
