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Both assertions hold for a normed vector space. The norm is continuous, so $U$ is open and $K$ is closed. If $\Vert x\Vert =1$, then $x_n=(1+1/n)x$ lies outside $K$ and converges to $x$. Hence no such boundary point belongs to the interior of $K$, giving $\mathrm{int}K=U$. Conversely, $(1-1/n)x\in U$ converges to every unit vector $x$, so $K\subseteq \overline{U}$. Closedness gives the reverse inclusion, and $\overline{U}=K$. Points already in $U$ cause no difficulty. In the zero-dimensional space $U=K=X$, so the conclusions still hold. This is the interior and closure of norm balls; radial scaling supplies what a general metric space lacks.