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of the topological properties of a space is the minimum cardinality of a base for its topology, called the weight of and denoted . From the examples above, the real line has countable weight.

If is a base for the topology of a space , it satisfies the following properties:
:(B1) The elements of cover , i.e., every point belongs to some element of .
:(B2) For every and every point ,

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