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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 ii Paper 3 3G Solution by
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Suppose a connected subset contains distinct points . The distance function is a Lipschitz map with constant one, by the reverse triangle inequality. Its image is connected and contains both and , so it contains the whole interval . Monotonicity and the Lipschitz inequality for Hausdorff dimension implya contradiction. Thus every nonempty connected subset of is a single point: is totally disconnected. The argument is the Hausdorff dimension of a connected set bound, and does not require to be closed.
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