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Old June 11th, 2007, 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by ThePerfectHacker View Post
Did I say it was wrong? I did not read it. The solution I gave was just a different solution.
You should remember the rule that there are sometimes many ways to prove a theorem.*

*)For example, Quadradic Reciprocity, what a beautify law, there are more than 200 ways to prove it!!!
No, indeed you did not say it was wrong. I was just interested when you suggested...

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The trick is to think of Cauchy Sequences. That is what Rebesques was suggesting. Doing this the ordinary way, i.e. convergent sequences might be difficult.
...that proving the proposition without the concept of a Cauchy sequence would be 'difficult'. In my inexperience, this led me to doubt that my (fairly short) argument was valid at all.