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Closure of a Subset of a Metric Space

A point is a closure point of a subset of a metric space if every open ball around it meets the subset; the closure is the set of closure points.

Statement

In the setting of Metric Spaces: Balls, the Metric Topology, and the Real and Complex Numbers as Metric Spaces and Routine Facts, Continued: Typed Arithmetic, Maps and Predicativity, let (X,d)(X,d) be a metric space and let A⊆XA\subseteq X.

Closure point. A point x∈Xx\in X is a closure point, or adherent point, of AA if every open ball centred at xx meets AA: Bd(x,r)∩A≠∅B_{d}(x,r)\cap A\neq\emptyset for every real number r>0r>0.

Closure. The closure of AA is the subset of XX consisting of the closure points of AA:

cl⁡A={x∈X: Bd(x,r)∩A≠∅ for every real r>0}.\operatorname{cl}A=\{x\in X:\ B_{d}(x,r)\cap A\neq\emptyset\text{ for every real }r>0\}.

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