Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2021/prelims/mathematics-ii/1/a/ii/solution

True. Write and . Every , satisfies , giving an upper bound for the set of pairwise differences. For every , the definitions of supremum and infimum give and with
Then . Hence no smaller upper bound works, and
Here means pairwise subtraction, rather than set difference.

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