By the Heine-Borel theorem, a subset of is compact exactly when it is closed and bounded. Consequently the compact intervals are
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including singleton intervals. The empty interval is compact too, if included in the interval convention. Nonempty open, proper half-open, and unbounded intervals are not compact.

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