In the real numbers, a summand added to both sides of an equation can be cancelled, and the product of a real number with the negative of another is the negative of their product.
This lemma adopts the setting of The Real Numbers, with the Natural Numbers, Integers and Rationals Identified with Subsets of the Reals, and Completeness: , its operations and , and its elements and are as in The Real Numbers, with the Natural Numbers, Integers and Rationals Identified with Subsets of the Reals, and Completeness (ii); for , is the negative of and is the difference of and . Let , and be real numbers.
If , then .
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