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Past exam of the options I course of the University of Oxford 2008 E E2 iii Solution by
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The circle is path-connected, using circular arcs, and hence connected. Its continuous image is connected by part (ii). A connected subset of the real line is an interval: if it contained values on opposite sides of a missing value , intersection with and would separate it. Thus is an interval. It is also compact, so it is a closed bounded interval, possibly reduced to one point.
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