Exercise · ZW-ARCHIMEDEAN-PROPERTY-005 · ★☆☆ Basic

Which statement is equivalent to the Archimedean property?

Choose one option.

Show answer
  • D. \(\mathbb N\) is not bounded above in \(\mathbb R\)

Explanation

That no real is an upper bound of \(\mathbb N\) is exactly to say that for every real there is a larger natural.

Study Real analysis in ZWMath →

Review the concept: Archimedean property

The property of \(\mathbb R\) by which, however small a positive number \(x\) is, some multiple of it by a natural \(n\in\mathbb N\) exceeds any real \(y\).

\[x>0,\ y\in\mathbb R\ \Longrightarrow\ \exists\, n\in\mathbb N:\ nx>y\]

More practice problems: archimedean property

← ZW-ARCHIMEDEAN-PROPERTY-004 ZW-ARCHIMEDEAN-PROPERTY-006 →