In his recent book "From Hahn-Banach to Monotonicity" (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2008) S. Simons formulated several open problems. In this short note we give the answer to Problem 11.6 and a short proof to the answer given by R. I. Bot and R. Csetnek to Problem 11.5

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Constantin Zălinescu

University "Al. I. Cuza", Faculty of Mathematics, Bd. Copou Nr. 11, 6600 Iaşi, Romania
and: Institute of Mathematics Octav Mayer, Iaşi, Romania

zalinesc@uaic.ro
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