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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ib Paper 3 2G iii Solution by
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Let . The points lie on the specified graph and converge in to . They form a Cauchy sequence in the induced metric, but their only possible limit is absent from the space. Adding does not supply that missing limit. Hence the specified space is not complete.
For the unheaded request on , use the arctangent pullback metricPositivity, symmetry and the triangle inequality follow from the ordinary distance, and injectivity of gives only if . The sequence is Cauchy for this metric, because , but cannot converge to any finite real : that would require . Thus this metric makes incomplete, even though it induces its usual topology.
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