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Riemann's Example of a Continuous but Nowhere Differentiable Function

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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 (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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