We present new results for the amplitude $A_2$ for a kaon to decay into two pions with isospin $I=2$: Re$A_2 = 1.50(4)_mathrm{stat}(14)_mathrm{syst}times 10^{-8}$ GeV; Im$A_2 = -6.99(20)_mathrm{stat}(84)_mathrm{syst}times 10^{-13}$ GeV. These results were obtained from two ensembles generated at physical quark masses (in the isospin limit) with inverse lattice spacings $a^{-1}=1.728(4)$ GeV and $2.358(7)$ GeV. We are therefore able to perform a continuum extrapolation and hence largely to remove the dominant systematic uncertainty from our earlier results, that due to lattice artefacts. The only previous lattice computation of $Ktopipi$ decays at physical kinematics was performed using an ensemble at a single, rather coarse, value of the lattice spacing ($a^{-1}simeq 1.37(1)$ GeV). We confirm the observation that there is a significant cancellation between the two dominant contributions to Re$A_2$ which we suggest is an important ingredient in understanding the $Delta I=1/2$ rule, Re$A_0$/Re$A_2simeq 22.5$, where the subscript denotes the total isospin of the two-pion final state. Our result for $A_2$ implies that the electroweak penguin contribution to $epsilon^prime/epsilon$ is Re($epsilon^prime/epsilon)_textrm{EWP}=-(6.6pm 1.0)times 10^{-4}$.
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