Unexpectedly uniformly continuous functions

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The other day in a exam, I was given the following exercise:

Given $f : [0,1] \to \mathbb{R}$ continuous and such that $f(0) = 0, f(1) = 1$, let $g : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ be $g(x) = [x] + f(x - [x])$. Prove that $g$ is uniformly continuous.

I'm looking for more examples of this kind of exercise to practice with (i.e. functions with uniform continuity that are not as straightforward to prove that they are).

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Any continuous function $f$ from a closed interval $[a, b]$ to $[a, b]$ is uniformly continuous. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heine–Cantor_theorem.

If $f(a) = a$ and $f(b) = b$ then extending $f$ to a function $\Bbb{R} \to \Bbb{R}$ by taking $f(x) = x$ for $x \not\in [a, b]$ still gives a uniformly continuous function.

If you want practice on proving uniform continuity from first principles, you can create your own examples from this.