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Examples 5.2.2(d):

Is the set {1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, ...} {0} compact ?
This set is compact. To see this, first note that the set is bounded. Hence, any sequence of elements from this set is also bounded, and using the Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem we can extract a convergent subsequence. But the set is also closed, so that by the theorem on accumulation and boundary points the limit in fact must be part of the set as well.
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