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Lower Bound and Greatest Lower Bound

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Let S⊆RS\subseteq\mathbb{R}. A number ℓ∈R\ell\in\mathbb{R} is called a lower bound of SS if ℓ≤s\ell\le s for every s∈Ss\in S. If SS is nonempty and bounded below, then a number m∈Rm\in\mathbb{R} is called the greatest lower bound, or infimum, of SS if:

(i) m is a lower bound of S,and(ii) every lower bound ℓ of S satisfies ℓ≤m.\text{(i) } m \text{ is a lower bound of } S, \qquad \text{and} \qquad \text{(ii) every lower bound } \ell \text{ of } S \text{ satisfies } \ell\le m.

In that case one writes m=inf⁡Sm=\inf S.

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