Outside a meagre set in , every rational and every positive integer admit such that
For fixed , the union over of these strict-inequality sets is open. It is dense because a perturbation can make the th derivative arbitrarily large while keeping any prescribed finite collection of lower derivatives arbitrarily small. The Baire category theorem applied over the countable pairs gives the claim.
The generic derivative bound implies that at every rational ,
The Cauchy-Hadamard theorem therefore gives radius zero to the Taylor series at every such . If a Taylor series represented on a neighborhood of any point, that neighborhood would contain a rational point at which was real analytic, a contradiction.

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