Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2019/ib/paper-1/12g/b/solution

A metric space is complete when every Cauchy sequence converges to a point of the space.
Let be a Cauchy sequence in , where . For each positive integer , choose such that
This inequality says that the first coordinates of and agree. Consequently each coordinate is eventually constant. Let be its eventual value and put .
For , the first coordinates of agree with those of , so
As is arbitrary, . Therefore

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