Intersection of decreasing balls

From: TCL <tlim1@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:22:54 EDT

Let X be a complete metric space and B_n a decreasing sequence of closed balls in X. I believe that generally the intersection of B_n can be empty.

Does anyone have a good example?

TCL
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