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Ends of topological spaces. Why independent of choice of ascending sequence of compact subsets?

Quoting from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_(topology): "Let X be a topological space, and suppose that K1 ⊂ K2 ⊂ K3 ⊂ · · · is an ascending sequence of compact ...