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What does it mean that the complement of the rationals has empty interior?

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I want to prove that the closure of $\mathbb{Q}$ is $\mathbb{R}$. I am trying to understand the accepted answer, but when it comes to "This shows that the complement of $\mathbb{Q}$ has empty interior, so the closure of $\mathbb{Q}$ is all of $\mathbb{R}$.", I get stuck.

What does it mean intuitively that a set has empty interior?

What I know is that a point is interior to a set when it is the center of some open ball inside that set. In that sense, for a set to have empty interior would mean that it has no interior points. Furthermore, the set of all its adherent points - a point $m$ is adherent to the set of rationals when there is a sequence of rational points $x_k$ such that $limx_k = m.$Being so, the complement of rationals would have no interior points.

How does it follow from this that the closure of $\mathbb{Q}$ is $\mathbb{R}$?

Thanks in advance!


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