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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2005 ib Paper 2 3B Solution by
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Every uniformly continuous function on is bounded. Choose the tolerance for and an integer with . The finitely many centers , , cover the interval by cells of radius . For each , one center satisfies . Thus . This is the uniformly continuous function on a totally bounded set is bounded argument; closedness of the interval is unnecessary.
The reciprocal function is not uniformly continuous on . It is unbounded, already contradicting the preceding result. Directly, and have distance tending to zero while .
The oscillating function is not uniformly continuous either, despite being bounded. TakeTheir distance tends to zero, but their function values are and . The fixed output gap of two contradicts the uniform-continuity condition, for example with .
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