Show that any open subset of R (w std. topology) is a countable union of...

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Show that any open subset of R (w std. topology) is a countable union of open intervals.

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Answer First recall that the standard topology of is the topology generated by the basis Thus an open subset in the standard topology is a subset which can be written as union    See Answer
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