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| | PlanetMath: filter |
 | | Also, the two kinds of limit that one sees in elementary real analysis - the limit of a sequence at infinity, and the limit of a function at a point - are both special cases of the limit of a filter: the |
 | | The notion of a Cauchy sequence can be extended with no difficulty to any uniform space (but not just a topological space), getting what is called a Cauchy filter; any convergent filter on a uniform space is a Cauchy filter, and if the converse holds then we say that the uniform space is complete. |
 | | Cross-references: complete, convergent, uniform space, Cauchy sequence, Fréchet filter, function, infinity, sequence, real, limit, Tychonoff's theorem, cluster point, accumulation point, meets, converge, neighbourhoods, topological space, point, proper subset, finite, axiom, intersection, subsets |
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