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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2001 iii Paper 7 1 i Solution by
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Intersect a connected component of with the clopen subset . Connectedness makes the intersection either empty or all of . In the empty case . In the other case ; a connected set in containing is also connected in , so maximality prevents it from being larger. Thus is a component of , or .
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