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A linear map from a metrizable space carrying a vector-space topology is continuous if it takes every null sequence to a null sequence. If continuity fails, choose a point in each shrinking basic neighborhood whose image stays outside a fixed neighborhood of zero. These points converge to zero but their images do not. For a Fréchet space described by increasing seminorms $p_j$, a discontinuous functional admits $p_j(f_j)\le 1/j$ and $|u(f_j)|\ge 1$.