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Glueing continuous functions constructively

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The glueing of (sequentially, pointwise, or uniformly) continuous functions that coincide on the intersection of their closed domains is examined in the light of Bishop-style constructive analysis. This requires us to pay attention to the way that the two domains intersect.

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Bridges, D.S., Loeb, I. Glueing continuous functions constructively. Arch. Math. Logic 49, 603–616 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00153-010-0189-4

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