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<p>as <a href="page.php?w=ZFC">ZFC</a>.</p>

<p><big>As a metric space</big></p>
<p>The real line forms a <a href="page.php?w=metric_space">metric space</a>, with the <a href="page.php?w=distance_function">distance function</a> given by absolute difference:<br/>
: The <a href="page.php?w=metric_tensor">metric tensor</a> is clearly the 1-dimensional <a href="page.php?w=Euclidean_metric">Euclidean metric</a>. Since the -dimensional Euclidean metric can be represented in matrix form as the -by- identity matrix, the metric on the real line is simply the 1-by-1</p><p>
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