Closure of a bounded set

1. Oct 21, 2004

cateater2000

If A is a bounded subset of the reals, show that the points infA, supA belong to the closure A*.

At first the answer seems obvious to me since A* contains its limit points. I'm just having trouble putting it into words, any suggestions would be great, thanks.

2. Oct 21, 2004

NateTG

Can you show that any open neigborhood of inf A contains some element of A?

3. Oct 21, 2004

mathman

It is easy to construct two sequences of points which converge to infA and supA respectively. Take intervals of length 1/n above infA and below supA. Each of these must contain a point of A.

4. Oct 22, 2004

debrawallenger

Help, anyone. I am very new to this forum and am really here trying to help my son with his wicked 6th grade homework. His teacher is in my opinion, assigning problems that are way too difficult. I was hoping someone here could maybe help. The problem is as follows: The students are given the sequence 1,5,13,25,41,61 and have to come up with an equation to solve the sequence. Any ideas? This should be easy for you all. But for me, who was good at math at one time, this is beyond what I can come up with. Any help would be appreciated!

5. Oct 23, 2004

matt grime

There are many "natural" ways to "solve" this.

Why don't you consider the differences between consecutive terms?

6. Oct 23, 2004

mathman

The answer I gave previously assumed that infA and supA were not in A. If they are in A there is nothing to prove, but my previous argument may not hold (surprise).

Question for debrawallenger - what has this got to do with the original question?