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The paper establishes conditions for the existence of twin positive solutions to the following continuous boundary value problem: \[ \begin{aligned} & (-1)^{n-p} y^{(n)} =\phi(t)f(t,y), \quad 0<t<1, \\ &y^{(i)}(0)=0, \quad 0\leq i\leq p-1, 1\leq p\leq n-1, \tag{1}\\ &y^{(i)}=0, \quad 0\leq i \leq n-p-1,\end{aligned} \] and its discrete analog. Here, \(n\geq 2\) and solutions to (1) are sought in \(C^{n-1}[0,1]\cap C^n (0,1)\). The papers of the authors [Nonlinear Analysis, to appear] and of the first two authors [Comput. Math. Appl. 37, No. 9, 39-48 (1999; Zbl 0941.39003)] deal with the same problem for the continuous and discrete case, respectively. However, one of the nonnegative solutions under consideration can be identically zero in those results. Here, they put some extra assumptions to guarantee the positiveness of both solutions.