Paper 3, Section II, G

Topics in Analysis
Part II, 2014

Define what is meant by a nowhere dense set in a metric space. State a version of the Baire Category Theorem. Show that any complete non-empty metric space without isolated points is uncountable.

Let AA be the set of real numbers whose decimal expansion does not use the digit 6 . (A terminating decimal representation is used when it exists.) Show that there exists a real number which cannot be written as a+qa+q with aAa \in A and qQq \in \mathbb{Q}.