
A Transition to Advanced Mathematics
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Author: Douglas Smith, Maurice Eggen, Richard St. Andre
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Chapter 4.1, Problem 16E
An alternate version of the Archimedean Principle for the reals has the effect of saying that there are no infinitesimal (infinitely small) real numbers. It says
Prove that the two versions are equivalent.
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