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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0718.00016.] The background material of the paper is a quasilinear partial differential equation of conservation law form \[ Ax=\bigl\{\begin{matrix} x_ t & + & {\partial\over \partial \xi}q(x)\\x(\xi,0) & - & x_ 0(\xi)\end{matrix}\bigr\}=0,\quad (\xi,t)\in\Omega\tag{1} \] appearing in mathematical modelling of gas flows in one space dimension. \(\Omega\) denotes the upper half plane of \(\mathbb{R}^ 2\) including the horizontal axis. The corresponding weak problem is \(A(\Phi)x=0\) where the test functions \(\Phi\) range over \(C^ 1_ 0(\Omega)=:J\). A standard explicit three point difference scheme defines a discrete version \(A_ nx_ n=0\) for (1). The corresponding weak formulation is written as \(A_ n(\Phi)x_ n=0\). This situation is generalized into a Banach space setting where a convergence theorem is proved and applied to the special situation above. The main point is that, on the transition from the continuous version (1) to its weak counterpart, uniqueness of the solutions is lost. The abstract convergence theorem takes care of situations with possibly many solutions.