Exercise 2.8

Exercise 8: Is every point of every open set E 2 a limit point of E ? What about closed sets?

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Open sets: Yes. Any point x in an open set E is contained in a neighborhood N 𝜖 ( x ) E . Any point y such that d ( y , x ) < 𝜖 is contained in E . It is clear that any neighborhood of x contains such a point y .

Closed sets: No. A single point set E = { x } is closed, but is not a limit point, since no neighborhood of x contains a point y E such that y x .

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