What is the meaning of discrete and continuous data?
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Continuous data is where there are infinite measurements over any time period. So it’s like measuring a temperature with a thermometer, and you watch it constantly change.
It becomes discrete data when your mate asks you what the temperature is, and you read out what you see. Each time you read it out is you sampling the value.
If you spoke faster, then you could read out the value more often and, in other words, sample more often. If you could speak infinitely fast and read out the values infinitely often, then it becomes continuous data.
But since we can’t do things infinitely fast, discrete data is how continuous data can be represented in a digital world.
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