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Vanishing of the Distance to a Set Characterizes the Closure

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Let (X,d)(X,d) be a metric space, and let Td\mathcal{T}_d be the collection of all subsets of XX that are open in (X,d)(X,d), which is a topology on XX by Metric Open Sets Form a Topology. Let A⊆XA\subseteq X be nonempty and let x∈Xx\in X, and write dist⁡d(x,A)\operatorname{dist}_d(x,A) for the distance from xx to AA in (X,d)(X,d). Let 00 be the additive identity of the ordered field of real numbers.

Then dist⁡d(x,A)=0\operatorname{dist}_d(x,A)=0 if and only if xx belongs to the closure cl⁡X(A)\operatorname{cl}_X(A) of AA in the topological space (X,Td)(X,\mathcal{T}_d).

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