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Exercise 5.2.6
The cardinality of the set of all discontinuous functions is . [Hint: Using Exercise 2.5, show that whenever .]
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Proof. The proof is analogous to that of Theorem 5.2.4. So suppose that is a set with . Let so that by Exercise 5.2.5 we have
Also suppose that where . Now define a set
Clearly then . Since also but it follows that there is an where . If we let then any is not in so that . Hence but also since there is an obvious bijection between and we have
Since also clearly we also have that
Hence by the Cantor-Bernstein Theorem as desired. □
Main Problem.
Proof. By Lemma 5.2.7 . Also by Theorem 5.2.6a the set of all continuous has cardinality of . Thus clearly the set of all discontinuous functions from is simply
But then by Lemma 1 above we have that
as desired. □