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 | | Going the other direction, a function f from a topological space Y to a discrete space X is continuous if and only it if is locally constant in the sense that every point in Y has a neighborhood on which f is constant. |
 | | In some ways, the opposite of the discrete topology is the trivial topology (also called the indiscrete topology), which has the least possible number of open sets (just the empty set and the space itself). |
 | | Where the discrete topology is initial or free, the indiscrete topology is final or cofree: every function from a topological space to an indiscrete space is continuous, etc. |
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