The rational numbers lie in and obey . They form a convergent sequence in the real numbers, with limit of a sequence . Every subsequence has that same real limit. Because is an irrational number, no subsequence converges to a point in the rational numbers with their usual metric. Boundedness alone therefore does not give the corresponding theorem in every metric space; completeness of the real numbers is doing real work here. The floor function simply truncates the decimal expansion in this example.
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