#Intersection of infinite set of open sets

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maiden quest
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take the infinite set of intervals (a-1/n,a+1/n).
Say the intersection of all of them are open, then {a} is open for all a in R, however then every subset of R is open

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so openness loses meaning with infinite intersections

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as everything is open

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(also, topologies are defined by finite intersections of open sets being open)

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also for infinite S's, your choice of epsilon becomes an infimum, so there is possibility you get eps=0

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your choice of epsilon need not be positive with infinite S

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like take the intervals I wrote, then eps = inf{1,1/2,1/3,...}=0