In an ordered field in which every nonempty set bounded above has a supremum, nonempty sets bounded below have infima, every element lies below some natural number, the rationals are dense, and every element is the supremum of the rationals below it.
In the setting of The Integers and the Rational Numbers, with the Natural Numbers and the Integers Identified with Subsets of the Rationals, let be an ordered field in which every nonempty subset of that is bounded above has a supremum, and let be the canonical embedding.
Every nonempty subset of that is bounded below has an infimum.
Let .
There is with , the natural number being read in as in Commutative Rings, Fields and Ordered Fields: Standard Notation §numerals.
If , there is with .
is the supremum of .
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