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Are compact sets in a geodesic metric space necessarily bounded? What about, if the space is proper?

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    @JacobSchlather Thanks :)2012-08-23

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Compact sets in any metric space are bounded. This is easily seen by taking any point of the set and covering the space with the union of open balls of radius $n$ centered on that point.