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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2002 iii Paper 20 3 ii Solution by
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Let be a terminal object. The pullback in a category of has precisely the universal property of the binary product in a category : every pair of morphisms to is compatible over . Repeated binary products in a category, together with as the empty product, give all finite products in a category.
For , form the pullback in a category of the categorical diagonal along . Its projection satisfies . If satisfies , the pair gives a unique morphism into this pullback in a category. Conversely any such morphism must project to that pair. Hence is the equalizer of . The preceding construction now gives all finite limits.
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