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Re: closed but not complete
Posted:
Feb 2, 2013 12:27 AM
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On Feb 1, 9:14 pm, William Elliot <ma...@panix.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Daniel J. Greenhoe wrote:
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> A long title in ignarance of what he once learned in composition class.
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> > Let (Y,d) be a subspace of a metric space (X,d).
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> > If (Y,d) is complete, then Y is closed with respect to d. That is,
> > complete==>closed.
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> > Alternatively, if (Y,d) is complete, then Y contains all its limit
> > points.
> > Would anyone happen to know of a counterexample for the converse? That
> > is, does someone know of any example that demonstrates that
> > closed --> complete
> > is *not* true?
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> No. Assume K is a closed subset of the complete space (S,d).
But the original poster did not say that his metric space (X,d) was
complete.
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