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Well-Ordering Principle

Every nonempty set of Positive integers contains a smallest member.

See also Well-Ordered Set


References

Shanks, D. Solved and Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, 4th ed. New York: Chelsea, p. 149, 1993.




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1999-05-26