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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 144 3 c ii Solution by
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There is exactly one non-isolated type:It is consistent by the compactness theorem, since every finite subset is realized by a sufficiently large rational number. It is complete by quantifier elimination, because it decides every comparison with a parameter from .
No formula isolates it. Any formula belongs to only through finitely many natural-number parameters; after quantifier elimination it holds throughout some final ray. It is consequently also satisfied by a sufficiently large natural number, whose equality type differs from . Thus is non-isolated, and the list in part i exhausts all other cuts of .
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