Interesting problem? boundaries/limit points etc

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The discussion centers on identifying a nonempty set A within the real numbers R that satisfies the conditions A = br(A) = Lim(A) = Cl(A), where br(A) represents boundary points, Lim(A) denotes limit points, and Cl(A) indicates closure. The user concludes that A cannot be dense in R, as this would result in br(A) equating to R, contradicting the equality with A. The user speculates that A may consist of discrete points or a convergent infinite sequence, and questions whether the Cantor set meets these criteria.

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I've been working on this problem and would like some help or any hints.

Give an example of a nonempty set A subset of R such that A = br(A) = Lim(A) = Cl(A), where br(A) denotes the boundary points of A, Lim(A) denotes the limit points of A and Cl(A) denotes the closure of A.

I've tried finding conditions that this A seems to have to satisfy and this is what I have so far. It appears that A cannot be dense in R. Otherwise, br(A) = R which won't equal A. And since Cl(A) = int(A) U br(A) then I should have that int(A) is empty. So it seems like A is going to be a set of discrete points. But at the same time, the fact that it isn't dense sort of confuses me because I must have that every point is a boundary point and hence any ball around it has points of A and R\A, so its rather weird.

Any help or ideas?

EDIT:

Hmm I just thought of something, maybe I could let A to be an convergent infinite sequence...once the terms begin to become arbitrarily close to each other...I'll have to look at this...

EDIT:

Wait does the Cantor set satisfy these properties?

Any ideas??
 
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What's so weird about a discrete point being in the ball centered at it?

What should be weirding you out is the limit points of such a discrete set.
 
ZioX said:
What's so weird about a discrete point being in the ball centered at it?.

I didn't say that...

ZioX said:
What should be weirding you out is the limit points of such a discrete set.

Hmm I think that's my problem
 

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