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Prove the isolated and the interior points of a set must belong to the set, but give examples to show the limit points and boundary points of a set may or may not belong to the set.

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By definition, an isolated point x of a set S is a point of S.
Also, an interior point of a set S can be defined by the mean of the
existence of a positive number r>0 such that :

D(x,r)\subset S\text{ therefore }x\in S
wherein D(x,r) is the disc of center x and radius r.

Example of a set whose boundary is not a subset of S:

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