Every open cover has a countable subcover => a countable dense set

Let X be a metric space.
Every open cover in has a countable subcover => a countable dense set
{B(1/n, x) | all x in X} is clearly an open cover, whatever n>0 one picks. for a fixed n, say n=2, there is a subcover by the assumption. To get a dense set, we just include xmn for all m and n. 

The converse also holds.

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