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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 .


	Contributed by: Michael Trott

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"Riemann's Example of a Continuous but Nowhere Differentiable Function" from The Wolfram Demonstrations Project
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/RiemannsExampleOfAContinuousButNowhereDifferentiableFunction/

Contributed by: Michael Trott

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