Solution

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For real-valued functions, the Uniform Cauchy criterion applied to partial sums says that has uniform convergence exactly when
Sufficiency uses completeness of the real numbers.
Let be a common bound for the uniformly bounded family of functions ; increase it if necessary so that . The assumed uniform absolute convergence of gives such that
The triangle inequality now yields
The Uniform Cauchy criterion therefore proves uniform convergence of . The same estimate with proves uniform absolute convergence as well.

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