Riemann's Example of a Continuous but Nowhere Differentiable Function

Contrary to intuition, functions exist that are continuous everywhere, but differentiable almost nowhere. This shows a plot of partial sums of Riemann's continuous but nowhere differentiable function which can be expressed as .

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