Completeness of a countable product metric

ID: completeness-of-a-countable-product-metric

If every factor is a complete metric space, the countable product metric is complete. For a product-Cauchy sequence, the inequality , with , makes each coordinate sequence Cauchy. Its coordinate limits define a product point. Coordinatewise convergence and the uniformly small summable tail imply convergence to that point in . It matters that the original distances are bounded before they are summed: summing arbitrary unbounded metrics directly need not be finite.

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