Description: A totally bounded metric space is bounded. This theorem fails for extended metrics - a bounded extended metric is a metric, but there are totally bounded extended metrics that are not metrics (if we were to weaken istotbnd to only require that M be an extended metric). A counterexample is the discrete extended metric (assigning distinct points distance +oo ) on a finite set. (Contributed by Jeff Madsen, 2-Sep-2009) (Proof shortened by Mario Carneiro, 12-Sep-2015)
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