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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2010 / ii / Paper 1 / 2F / i

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The Baire category theorem says that a countable intersection of open dense sets in a nonempty complete metric space is dense. Write E={e1​,e2​,…}. Each singleton is closed in a metric space and has empty interior because there are no isolated points. Therefore every X∖{ej​} is open and dense. Applying the theorem also to G yields
G∖E=G∩⋂j≥1​(X∖{ej​}),
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which is dense in X. Thus every nonempty open subset meets the required difference, not merely the original dense set G.

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