Step function
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This article is about a piecewise constant function. For the unit step function, see Heaviside step function.
In mathematics, a function on the real numbers is called a step function if it can be written as a finite linear combination of indicator functions of intervals. Informally speaking, a step function is a piecewise constant function having only finitely many pieces.