Cauchy sequence of functions means Cauchy sequence of function's values?

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In my lecture notes, the professor says:

Let $\{f_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ be a Cauchy sequence of continuous functions $f:[t_0,t_1]\to \mathbb R^n$. For each $t\in[t_0,t_1]$, $\{f_n(t)\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ is a Cauchy sequence of vectors in $\mathbb R^n$.

Question : I'd like to know why is this the case?

Note that we define $\{v_i\}_{i=0}^{\infty}$ to be a Cauchy sequence if and only if

$$ \forall\varepsilon>0\,\,\exists N\in \mathbb N\text{ such that }\forall m\ge N,\,\,\|v_m-v_N\|<\varepsilon $$

Please take the infinity norm:

$$ \|f\|_\infty=\max_{t\in[t_0,t_1]}{\|f(t)\|_2} $$

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When we talk about a Cauchy sequence, we need to equip a norm on the space.

You are saying about the space $X=\{f| f:[t_0,t_1]\rightarrow R^n\}$

The important thing is what is the norm on $X$.

In this case, since the norm is not specified, your professor maybe intend to say about the Cauchy sequence pointwisely.

Just my opinion. Thank you.