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Negatives, Reciprocals and the Strict Order in an Ordered Field, as Values

In an ordered field, the negative and the reciprocal lie in the field and satisfy x + (−x) = 0 and x · x⁻¹ = 1, and x < y holds exactly when x ≤ y and not y ≤ x.

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In the setting of Commutative Rings, Fields and Ordered Fields: Standard Notation, let FF, with operations ++ and ⋅\cdot, elements 00 and 11 and order ≤\le, be an ordered field, and let x,y∈Fx,y\in F. Write −x-x for the negative of xx and x−1x^{-1} for the reciprocal of xx when x≠0x\neq0; << is the strict relation associated with ≤\le.

−x∈F-x\in F and x+(−x)=0x+(-x)=0.

If x≠0x\neq0, then x−1∈Fx^{-1}\in F and x⋅x−1=1x\cdot x^{-1}=1.

x<yx<y if and only if x≤yx\le y and not y≤xy\le x.

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