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Distinct natural numbers have . Taking in the Cauchy sequence condition forces every sufficiently late pair of terms to be equal. Every Cauchy sequence is therefore eventually constant and converges in , proving completeness.
The sequence has no convergent subsequence, since convergence would force its sufficiently late terms to lie within distance of its limit of a sequence, hence to equal that limit. Thus sequential compactness fails.
Every singleton is an open ball of radius , so the metric topology is the discrete topology. For example, and form a separation into two nonempty open sets, so is not connected. It is consequently not path-connected either.

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