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Since a subalgebra is closed under addition and scalar multiplication, the given absolute-value property yieldsThe same identity with a minus sign gives $\min (f,g)\in A$. These are pointwise operations on real-valued continuous functions.

The real Stone-Weierstrass theorem says that a real subalgebra $A\subset C(K,\mathbb{R})$ which contains the constants and separates points is dense in $C(K,\mathbb{R})$ for the uniform norm, when $K$ is compact Hausdorff space. If $A$ is also closed, $A=C(K,\mathbb{R})$. The complex version needs closure under complex conjugation; that extra condition is unnecessary here.