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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 ib Paper 1 2F Solution by
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A neighbourhood of contains an open set containing ; when every neighbourhood eventually contains every . If two metrics have the same topology they plainly have the same convergent sequences. Conversely, if a -open set were not -open, some would have points with ; the common-sequence assumption would imply , contradicting -openness. Symmetry finishes the proof. This fails generally: on an uncountable set the discrete and cocountable topologies differ, but in both every convergent sequence is eventually constant.
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