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A well-founded set is a set with a partial order such that it contains no infinite descending chains. If the order is a total order then the set is called a well-ordered set.

On reason that well-founded sets are interesting is because mathematical induction can be used on them.


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Edited July 22, 2001 8:34 pm by Jan Hidders (diff)
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