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Re: [P-1788]: Re objective == infinity



On 2012-09-30 10:53:11 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2012-09-28 18:15:20 +0100, N.M. Maclaren wrote:
> > Right.  So there are no closed unbounded intervals.
> 
> No, [1,+inf] is closed, because it is the complement of
> the open set [-inf,1[. But it is not a compact.

Note: in case this is not clear, I'm taking the topology on R
(not Rbar), because we are talking about intervals of real numbers
and Entire is R (not Rbar).

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