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This is always true: it is the Heine-Cantor theorem. If uniform continuity failed, there would be an $\epsilon >0$ and sequences $x_n,y_n\in X$ such thatBy sequential compactness of a compact metric space, some subsequence $x_{n_k}$ converges to $x\in X$. The triangle inequality gives $y_{n_k}\to x$. Continuity then makes both image subsequences converge to $f(x)$, contradicting their separation by $\epsilon$.

Write the sets as $A_1,A_2,\dots$, and list each nonempty countable set as $A_i=\{a_{i1},a_{i2},\dots \}$. Enumerate the pairs $(i,j)\in {\mathbb{N}}^2$ along successive diagonals, as in the Cantor pairing function, and output $a_{ij}$ when it has not appeared before. Every member of ${\bigcup }_i{A}_i$ eventually appears, proving that a countable union of countable sets is countable.

LetThe tail satisfiesFor every fixed positive integer $d$, this is smaller than $q_N^{-d}$ for all sufficiently large $N$.

The binary expansion has $1$ digits at factorial positions and arbitrarily long blocks of zeros, but it is neither eventually zero nor eventually periodic. Since a rational number has an eventually periodic binary expansion, $\alpha$ is irrational. If it were an algebraic number of degree $d$, part (b), or equivalently the Liouville approximation theorem, would give a fixed positive multiple of $q^{-d}$ as a lower bound for all rational approximations. The fractions $p_N/q_N$ violate that bound. Thus $\alpha$ is a transcendental number.

This is an infinite binary expansion with digits in $\{0,1\}$. If the usual expansion of $\alpha$ has infinitely many $1$ digits, list their positions as $b_1<b_2<\cdots$. If it terminates with a final term $2^{-k}$, replace that term bythis also covers every dyadic rational. For $\alpha =1$, use $b_n=n$. Thus every $\alpha \in (0,1]$ has the required form.

The representation by an infinite strictly increasing sequence is unique. If two sequences first differ at exponent $k$, one sum contains $2^{-k}$ and the other does not. The latter's entire possible tail is at most ${\sum }_{j>k}{2}^{-j}=2^{-k}$, while the former has $2^{-k}$ plus its own nonempty tail, so the sums cannot agree.

The inclusion-exclusion principle says that the size of a finite union is the alternating sum of the sizes of all nonempty intersections of its constituent sets.

For each prime number $p\mid n$, let $A_p$ consist of the tuples for which $p$ divides every $x_i$. Exactly $(n/p{)}^r$ tuples lie in $A_p$, and for distinct primes $p_1,\dots ,p_j\mid n$, exactly $(n/(p_1\cdots p_j){)}^r$ lie in their intersection. A tuple has greatest common divisor greater than one with $n$ exactly when it belongs to some $A_p$. Inclusion-exclusion therefore gives the Jordan totient function

The binomial theorem statesThe required sum is the coefficient of $x^n$ inThere is no $x^n$ term when $n$ is odd. When $n$ is even, the relevant term has exponent $2(n/2)=n$ and coefficient $(-1{)}^{n/2}(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{n}{n/2})$. Hence

Part (i) also shows that the odd subsequence is increasing and the even subsequence is decreasing. Each odd term is below the adjacent even term, so both are bounded monotone sequences and therefore have limits. Part (ii) says their difference tends to zero, so those limits coincide. Interlacing the two subsequences proves that $(a_n)$ has that common limit.

The stated formula is Cassini's identity. It holds for $n=1$, and the recurrence giveswhich is the negative of the expression at index $n$. This proves the identity by induction.

ConsequentlyThe positive Fibonacci numbers tend to infinity, so this difference tends to zero.