Lebl-Basic-Analysis-I · Problem 1.1.7

Real Numbers

Mathematics · ordered-sets-supremum-infimum

Problem

Find a nonstandard ordering of the set of natural numbers N\mathbb{N} such that there exists a nonempty proper subset A⊊NA \subsetneq \mathbb{N} and such that sup⁡A\sup A exists in N\mathbb{N}, but sup⁡A∉A\sup A \notin A. To keep things straight, it might be a good idea to use a different notation for the nonstandard ordering such as n≺mn \prec m.

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