Is the alternating sequence Cauchy?

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How can I show that $a_n$ = $(-1)^n$ is Cauchy?

I know that a definition of Cauchy is $\forall$ $\epsilon$ > 0, $\exists$ $N \in$ $\mathbb N$ such that if $x,y$ $\ge$ $N$, then $|a_x - a_y|$ < $\epsilon$.

This was my informal attempt.

We know that x,y can either be even or odd. If x and y are both even and greater than 0, then $|a_x - a_y|$ = 0, which is not less than 0. Therefore no such $N$ exists, and $a_n$ = $(-1)^n$ is Cauchy? is not Cauchy.

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Let's prove that $\left \{ a_{n} \right \}_{n\geq 0}\ $ is NOT Cauchy:

To do this we must find an $\epsilon >0$ such that for all $N>0$ there are integers $m,n\ \geq N$ with the property that $\vert a_n-a_m\vert >\epsilon$.

So we set $\epsilon =1$ and let $N>0$ be given.

Now we just observe that if $n=N+1$ and $m=N,\ $then $\vert (-1)^{N+1}-(-1)^N\vert =2>\epsilon$ and we are done.