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Metric Space

Defines a metric on a set by nonnegativity, vanishing exactly on the diagonal, symmetry and the triangle inequality, and a metric space as a set with a metric.

Statement

In the setting of The Real Numbers, with the Natural Numbers, Integers and Rationals Identified with Subsets of the Reals, and Completeness, let XX be a set and let d:X×X→Rd:X\times X\to\mathbb{R} be a map.

dd is a metric on XX if for all x,y,z∈Xx,y,z\in X the conditions nonnegative, zero, symmetric and triangle below hold.

0≤d(x,y)0\le d(x,y).

d(x,y)=0d(x,y)=0 if and only if x=yx=y.

d(x,y)=d(y,x)d(x,y)=d(y,x).

d(x,z)≤d(x,y)+d(y,z)d(x,z)\le d(x,y)+d(y,z).

If dd is a metric on XX, the pair (X,d)(X,d) is a metric space, and the elements of XX are its points.

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