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.
In the setting of Commutative Rings, Fields and Ordered Fields: Standard Notation, let , with operations and , elements and and order , be an ordered field, and let . Write for the negative of and for the reciprocal of when ; is the strict relation associated with .
and .
If , then and .
if and only if and not .
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