The Rational Numbers as a Subset of the Real Numbers

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Let $\mathbb{R}$ be the real numbers, a field in which $b^{-1}$ denotes the multiplicative inverse of a nonzero element $b$ , and let $\mathbb{Z}$ be the set of integers.

The set of rational numbers is

\mathbb{Q}=\bigl\{a\,b^{-1}\;:\;a\in\mathbb{Z},\ b\in\mathbb{Z},\ b\ne0\bigr\},

a subset of $\mathbb{R}$ . An element of $\mathbb{Q}$ is called a rational number.

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