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The well ordering principle states the following:
Every non-empty set S of positive integers contains a least element; that is, there is some a in S such that a <= b for all elements b in S.

This is equivalent to the AxiomOfChoice.


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Last edited February 12, 2001 9:43 pm by RaviDesai (diff)
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