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Please prove that: A nonempty compact set S of real numbers has a largest element (called...

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Please prove that: A nonempty compact set S of real numbers hasa largest element (called the maximum) and a smallest element(called the minimum).

By the way, I think a minimum is provided by -max(-S)

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