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Rules of Arithmetic and Order in an Ordered Field

The familiar rules in an ordered field: zero products, signs, reciprocals, adding and multiplying inequalities, squares are nonnegative and 0 < 1, reciprocals of positive elements, the midpoint of two elements lies strictly between them, and the properties of absolute value including the triangle inequality.

Statement

In the setting of Class Theory NBG: the Axioms, Standing Conventions and Basic Notation, let rr, with ++, ⋅\cdot, 00, 11 and ≤\le, be an ordered field, with << the strict relation of ≤\le, negatives and differences as in Negatives, Differences, Reciprocals and Quotients §negative, reciprocals and quotients as in Negatives, Differences, Reciprocals and Quotients §reciprocal, and absolute values as in Absolute Value in an Ordered Field §absolute-value. Let x,y,z,w∈rx,y,z,w\in r.

0⋅x=00\cdot x=0, and if x⋅y=0x\cdot y=0 then x=0x=0 or y=0y=0.

−(−x)=x-(-x)=x, −(x+y)=(−x)+(−y)-(x+y)=(-x)+(-y), (−x)⋅y=−(x⋅y)(-x)\cdot y=-(x\cdot y) and (−x)⋅(−y)=x⋅y(-x)\cdot(-y)=x\cdot y.

If x≠0x\neq0 and y≠0y\neq0, then x⋅y≠0x\cdot y\neq0, (x⋅y)−1=x−1⋅y−1(x\cdot y)^{-1}=x^{-1}\cdot y^{-1} and (x−1)−1=x(x^{-1})^{-1}=x.

If x≤yx\le y and z≤wz\le w, then x+z≤y+wx+z\le y+w; x<yx<y if and only if x+z<y+zx+z<y+z; and x≤yx\le y if and only if 0≤y−x0\le y-x.

x≤yx\le y if and only if −y≤−x-y\le-x.

If 0<z0<z, then x≤yx\le y if and only if x⋅z≤y⋅zx\cdot z\le y\cdot z, and x<yx<y if and only if x⋅z<y⋅zx\cdot z<y\cdot z.

0≤x⋅x0\le x\cdot x, and 0<10<1.

If 0<x0<x, then 0<x−10<x^{-1}; if moreover x<yx<y, then y−1<x−1y^{-1}<x^{-1}.

0<1+10<1+1, and if x<yx<y, then x<(x+y)/(1+1)<yx<(x+y)/(1+1)<y.

0≤∣x∣0\le|x|; ∣x∣=0|x|=0 if and only if x=0x=0; ∣−x∣=∣x∣|-x|=|x|; −∣x∣≤x≤∣x∣-|x|\le x\le|x|; ∣x⋅y∣=∣x∣⋅∣y∣|x\cdot y|=|x|\cdot|y|; and ∣x∣≤y|x|\le y if and only if −y≤x-y\le x and x≤yx\le y.

∣x+y∣≤∣x∣+∣y∣|x+y|\le|x|+|y|.

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