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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2021 Prelims Mathematics II 1 a ii Solution by
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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 withThen . Hence no smaller upper bound works, andHere means pairwise subtraction, rather than set difference.
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