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  1. September 28th 2010, 07:07 PM #1
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    metric space triangle inequality

    Let (M,d) be a metric space. Define a new metric as p(x,y)=\frac{d(x,y)}{1+d(x,y)} and prove that p(x,z)\leq p(x,y)+p(y,z)

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