Measuring Fractal Dimension ?

[Paul Rubin]

David C. Ullrich <ullrich at math.okstate.edu> writes:
> >> obviously converges to f, but not uniformly.  On a closed interval,
> >> any continuous function is uniformly continuous.
> >
> >Isn't (-?, ?) closed?
> 
> What is your version of the definition of "closed"?

I think the whole line is closed, but I hadn't realized anyone
considered the whole line to be an "interval".  Apparently they do.
So that the proper statement specifies compactness (= closed and
bounded) rather than just "closed".