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Past exam of the metric spaces and complex analysis course of the University of Oxford 2015 1 c ii Solution by
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Take an irrational number . The density of the rational numbers provides a sequence in converging to , which is outside that subset. Thus the subset is not closed in . By the Heine-Borel theorem, it is not compact, despite being bounded.
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