  Let $C(\rn )$ denote the set of real valued continuous functions defined on
$\rn$. We prove that for every $n\ge 2$ there are positive numbers $\la _1 \stb
\la _n$ and continuous functions $\phi_1 \stb \phi _m \in C(\rr )$ with the
following property: for every bounded and continuous $f\in C(\rn )$ there is a
continuous function $g\in C(\rr )$ such that $$f(x)=\sum_{q=1}^m g\left(
\sum_{p=1}^n \la _p \phi _q (x_p ) \right)$$ for every $x=(x_1 \stb x_n )\in
\rn$. Consequently, every $f\in C(\rn )$ can be obtained from
