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Union of any collection of open sets is open
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Jump to navigationJump to searchProve that the union of any collection of open sets is open.
Easy... Given a point in the union, for any open set in the collection that contains the point, the point has a neighborhood from the basis of topology that lies inside. Take that neighborhood. It will lie inside the union set.
It's a part of the definition of topological space, by the way.