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In a metric space, a set is open if for any element of the set we can find an open ball about it that is contained in the set. Well for the singletons in the discrete space, every other element is said to have a distance away of 1. So we can make a ball about the singleton of radius 1/2 ... this ball just equals that singleton since it contains only that element. So it is contained in the set. Thus the singleton set is open.

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