Multiplication of Dedekind cuts is associative, commutative and distributive over addition, has the cut of 1 as unit, gives every nonzero cut a reciprocal, keeps products of nonnegative cuts nonnegative, and multiplies rational cuts like the rationals.
In the setting of The Integers and the Rational Numbers, with the Natural Numbers and the Integers Identified with Subsets of the Rationals, let , and for be as in Construction of the Dedekind Cuts: They Form a Set Totally Ordered by Inclusion, Closed under Sums, Negatives and Products of Nonnegative Cuts, and let , , and be as in The Real Numbers §operations and The Real Numbers §constants (so that , by The Real Numbers §reals). Let and .
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If , there is with .
If and , then .
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