In every ordered field there is exactly one map from the rationals preserving sums, products and the unit; it is an injective homomorphism of ordered fields that preserves and reflects the strict order, negatives and reciprocals.
In the setting of The Integers and the Rational Numbers, with the Natural Numbers and the Integers Identified with Subsets of the Rationals, let , with , , , and , be an ordered field, with negatives, differences, reciprocals and quotients as in Negatives, Differences, Reciprocals and Quotients §negative and Negatives, Differences, Reciprocals and Quotients §reciprocal, absolute values as in Absolute Value in an Ordered Field §absolute-value, and the strict relation of . The operations and orders of and are written alike, as The Natural Numbers and the Natural Numbers with Zero: Arithmetic, Order, Induction and Recursion §overloading allows; below, those applied to and are the ones of , and those applied to values of are the ones of , even if and have the same elements. Let .
There is exactly one map such that and, for all , and .
This map is a homomorphism of ordered fields from to .
is injective.
if and only if .
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and .
If , then , and .
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