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Real Completeness

Why

Is the set of real numbers a complete ordered field (in the sense of Complete Fields?

Main result

$(\R , +, \cdot , <)$ is a complete ordered field.1
The supremum of a set of nonempty real numbers bounded from above $R$ is $\cup R$.
  1. The account will appear in future editions. ↩︎
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