Can you count everything?
Discrete mathematics
Can you count everything?
Imagine you're counting all the apples in a big orchard. You can count them one by one, apple by apple.
Discrete functions are like counting apples. You can't have a fraction of an apple counted, just whole numbers. Discrete functions deal with things you can list one by one.
Example
You count 1 apple, then 2 apples, then 3 apples... and so on.
Remember this
Discrete functions are about counting whole, separate items.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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