Definition:Closed Set/Real Analysis/Real Numbers

Definition

Let $S \subseteq \R$ be a subset of the set of real numbers.

Then $S$ is closed (in $\R$) if and only if its complement $\R \setminus S$ is an open set.

Also see

• Results about closed sets can be found here.

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