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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ib Paper 2 4E b Solution by
Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
Let with the usual metric and let with the discrete metric, and take . Every subset of is an open set, so the image of every open subset of is open: is an open map.
It is not continuous at any point. For , every allows a distinct with , but the distance between and in the discrete metric is 1. Equivalently, the preimage of the open singleton is not open in . Thus even between metric spaces.
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