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Lower Bound and Greatest Lower Bound in a Totally Ordered Set

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Let AA be a set equipped with a total order ≤\le, and let X⊆AX\subseteq A. An element ℓ∈A\ell\in A is a lower bound for XX if ℓ≤x\ell\le x for every x∈Xx\in X. If such an ℓ\ell exists, then XX is bounded below. An element m∈Am\in A is a greatest lower bound, or infimum, of XX if mm is a lower bound for XX and ℓ≤m\ell\le m for every lower bound ℓ\ell of XX.

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