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A piecewise-defined function is a function made up of subfunctions, each applying to an interval of the overall domain. While the pieces need not be intervals, functions are only called piecewise linear, continuous, or differentiable if the pieces are intervals. Piecewise indicates the expression of the function rather than the function's characteristics, but can describe properties that hold for each piece but not the overall domain, such as being differentiable within pieces.

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A piecewise-defined function is a function made up of subfunctions, each applying to an interval of the overall domain. While the pieces need not be intervals, functions are only called piecewise linear, continuous, or differentiable if the pieces are intervals. Piecewise indicates the expression of the function rather than the function's characteristics, but can describe properties that hold for each piece but not the overall domain, such as being differentiable within pieces.

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A piecewise-defined function (also called a piecewise function) is a function which is defined by multiple subfunctions, each subfunction applying to a certain

interval of the main function's domain (a subdomain). Piecewise is actually a way of expressing the function, rather than a characteristic of the function itself, but with additional qualification, it can describe the nature of the function. For example, a piecewise polynomial function: a function that is a polynomial on each of its subdomains, but possibly a different one on each. The word piecewise is also used to describe any property of a piecewise-defined function that holds for each piece but may not hold for the whole domain of the function. A function is piecewise differentiable or piecewise continuously differentiable if each piece isdifferentiable throughout its subdomain, even though the whole function may not be differentiable at the points between the pieces. Inconvex analysis, the notion of a derivative may be replaced by that of the subderivative for piecewise functions. Although the "pieces" in a piecewise definition need not be intervals, a function isn't called "piecewise linear" or "piecewise continuous" or "piecewise differentiable" unless the pieces are intervals.

The greatest integer function of a real number x is represented by [x] or |_x_|. For all real numbers x, the greatest integer function returns the largest integer less than or equal to x. In other words, the greatest integer function rounds down a real number to the nearest integer.

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