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Needs:
Egoprox Sequences ›
Needed by:
Closest Point Property ›
Complete Normed Spaces ›
Complex Limits ›
Metric Completions ›
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Complete Metric Spaces

Why

We want our spaces to be analytically complete.1

Definition

Our model for completeness is the real numbers, which are (by definition) complete. A metric space is complete if every egoprox sequence converges.

  1. Future editions will modify. ↩︎
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