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Elementary Arithmetic in an Ordered Field

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Reason: Initial publication. Elementary order arithmetic in an ordered field: nonnegativity of the unit, sums of nonnegative elements, translation, inverses of nonnegative elements, and multiplication by a nonnegative element. · 686 chars · 2 deps · depth 2

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Let FF be an ordered field, with the additive identity 00, multiplicative identity 11, additive inverses x-x and multiplicative inverses x1x^{-1} of a field, and with its order \le; write xy=x+(y)x-y=x+(-y). Let a,b,x,yFa,b,x,y\in F. Then the following hold.

1. (The unit is nonnegative) 010\le 1.

2. (Sums) If 0a0\le a and 0b0\le b, then 0a+b0\le a+b.

3. (Translation) xyx\le y holds if and only if 0yx0\le y-x.

4. (Inverses) If 0a0\le a and a0a\ne 0, then a10a^{-1}\ne 0 and 0a10\le a^{-1}.

5. (Multiplying by a nonnegative element) If xyx\le y and 0a0\le a, then axayax\le ay.

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