their individual components which means that we can now have a coding scheme that is designed around a much more expressive distribution class that you can fit to your data oh that seems to be out of order okay well so a real number X has infinite information so we cannot really expect to send a real number across a line in a finite amount of time because the infant that's keeps going forever new information every bit so what we're gonna do we're gonna assume if we have to be able to continuous variables X that we can discretize and