Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2010/ii/paper-1/2f/i/solution

The Baire category theorem says that a countable intersection of open dense sets in a nonempty complete metric space is dense. Write . Each singleton is closed in a metric space and has empty interior because there are no isolated points. Therefore every is open and dense. Applying the theorem also to yields
which is dense in . Thus every nonempty open subset meets the required difference, not merely the original dense set .

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