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Is any real-valued function in physics somehow continuous?

Consider the following well-known function: $$ \operatorname{sinc}(x) = \begin{cases} \sin(x)/x & \text{for } x \ne 0 \\ 1 & \text{for } x =0 \end{cases} $$ In physics, the sinc function has ...
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