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Martin Sleziak
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How to show the cardinality of nonisometric compact metric spaces is the continuum

It is asserted in A Course in Metric Geometry by Burago, Burago, Ivanov that

there can be no more than continuum of mutually nonisometric compact spaces

How is this proven?

Its clear that there must be at least a continuum of mutually nonisometric compact spaces, i.e. $([0,\alpha], d_{\mathbb{R}})$ for $\alpha>0$ are a family of nonisometric metric spaces, but I don't know enough set theory to have any ideas how to bound the cardinality from above. A first guess was that the fact that compact metric spaces are totally bounded should be useful?

Otis Chodosh
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