So on my homework it says that to prove the unit ball in $\ell^2(\mathbb{N})$ is non-compact, it suffices to find countably many elements $x_n$ of $\ell^2(\mathbb{N})$ with $\lVert x_n\rVert \leq \frac{1}{2}$ such that $\lVert x_n - x_m\rVert \geq \delta$ for some $\delta \in (0, \frac{1}{2})$ and $n \neq m$. Why is that?
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