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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2003 ib Paper 1 1F ii Solution by
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Assume the subsequence property, and let be a continuous function. If were unbounded, for each positive integer we could choose with . There is a subsequence with . By continuity, , so that real sequence is bounded. But , a contradiction. Hence every continuous real-valued function on is bounded. This is the bounded-function consequence of sequential compactness.
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