nLab countably compact metric spaces are equivalently compact metric spaces

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Let (X,d)(X,d) be a metric space, regarded as a topological space via its metric topology. Then the following are equivalent:

  1. (X,d)(X,d) is a countably compact topological space.

  2. (X,d)(X,d) is a compact topological space.

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