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Putnam 1968 B6

  • Session B

Show that one cannot find compact sets A1,A2,A3,…A_1, A_2, A_3, \ldots in R\mathbb{R} such that (1) All elements of AnA_n are rational. (2) Any compact set K⊂RK\subset \mathbb{R} which only contains rational numbers is contained in some AmA_{m} .

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