Uses of analytic continuation?

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So I understand what an analytic continuation is. However, I have yet to actually use it for anything (other than Borel-Laplace summation which I don't fully understand the use of but that is probably for another MSE question). Its nice that functions sometimes can be analytically continued (the same way that its nice a divergent sum can sometimes be 'summed'), but why would I ever want to analytically continue a function?

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Glad you asked, I recently posted a question that would be one of the applications of a.c.

Analytical continuation of moment generating function