A fuzzy number is a convex, normalized fuzzy set whose membership function is at least segmentally continuous and has the functional value at precisely one element.
This can be likened to the funfair game "guess your weight," where someone guesses the contestant's weight, with closer guesses being more correct, and where the guesser "wins" if he or she guesses near enough to the contestant's weight, with the actual weight being completely correct (mapping to 1 by the membership function).
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