To guarantee every real-valued convex function bounded above on a set is continuous, how ＂thick＂ should the set be？ For a symmetric set A in a Banach space E,the answer of this paper is： Every real-valued convex function bounded above on A is continuous on E if and only if the following two conditions hold： i） spanA has finite co-dimentions and ii） coA has nonempty relative interior. This paper also shows that a subset A C E satisfying every real-valued convex function bounded above on A is continuous on E if （and only if） every real-valued linear functional bounded above on A is continuous on E, which is also equivalent to that every real-valued convex function bounded on A is continuous on E.
