Metric spaces:

  A metric on a set X determines
  • a topology
  • a completion.
Metrics with the same topology may yield different completions.

Examples:

  R with the usual metric (Euclidean distance)
X coincides with its completion.

The metric of the open interval ]0,1[
The completion is compact, a 2-pont compactification.

The metric of S1-{*}

The metric of the subset {(x,sin(1/x)| x > 0}
The completion adds a whole interval.

The completion adds a circle and a point.
It is of interest to look at non-trivial Cauchy sequences in each case!

A further metric, with just two additional limit points:
one is minus infinite,
the other is the limit of 2N.

Note that all the examples can be modified in order to restrict to Q.
To deal with a countable set with a metric with values in Q, so that the completion is the space exhibited above.