Are the calendar months an example of a continuous or discontinuous variable?

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Are the calendar months an example of a continuous or discontinuous variable?

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Answer 1 · 2017-01-27T02:31:36

Discontinuous

Explanation:

There are $12$ months in the Gregorian calendar.
Twelve is a counting number.
$12 in NN$
Since the counting numbers ( $NN$ ) are countable, they deal with the discrete. Discrete is another way of saying not-continuous. Therefore, the calendar months would be a non-continuous random variable.

Any random variable that can only take natural, integer, or rational values is not continuous.

On the other hand if a variable could take values like $e$ , $pi$ , or $sqrt(2)$ then it is continuous

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