In every ordered field, a natural number with zero read as a multiple of 1 is the image of that natural number under the canonical embedding of the rationals.
In the setting of The Integers and the Rational Numbers, with the Natural Numbers and the Integers Identified with Subsets of the Rationals, let be an ordered field, the canonical embedding, and .
The element of , read as in Commutative Rings, Fields and Ordered Fields: Standard Notation §numerals, is , with read as a rational number as in The Integers and the Rational Numbers, with the Natural Numbers and the Integers Identified with Subsets of the Rationals §identification.
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