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Turing's argument says "conditionally compact" but the article talks only about "compact". They are not the same; "conditionally compact" means every sequence has a Cauchy subsequence, while (sequentially) compact means every sequence has a convergent subsequence. If the metric space Turing mentions is complete, then I guess they're the same. Is that obvious?
parent tempfile 2 years ago

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