Baire's category theorem

Baire's category theorem

[¦berz ′kad·ə‚gȯr·ē ‚thir·əm]

(mathematics)

The theorem that a complete metric space is of second category; equivalently, the intersection of any sequence of open dense sets in a complete metric space is dense.

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