Solution

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Put . Every summand is nonnegative and at most , so the series defining converges and . Symmetry follows from each . If , every nonnegative summand is zero, hence every and . The converse is immediate.
For the triangle inequality, first observe that for ,
Monotonicity of and the triangle inequality for therefore give
Multiply by and sum the convergent nonnegative series. This proves the required triangle inequality for , so is a metric. The construction combines a bounded metric transform with a countable product metric.

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