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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 25 2 b Solution by
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With a terminal object , the pullback in a category of is the binary product in a category . Repetition gives all nonempty finite products in a category, and supplies the empty one.
For , form the diagonal and pull it back along . Write the resulting maps as and . The equation says . A map with pairs with to give a unique map into this pullback in a category. Thus is the equalizer of .
We now have the finite products in a category and equalizers needed in part (a). A terminal object and pullbacks in a category therefore suffice for all finite limits.
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