Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-year-1-of-the-computer-science-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2023/discrete-mathematics-probability-and-continuous-mathematics/1/c/ii/solution

Write each member as . Every member is strictly below , so is an upper bound. If , the Archimedean property supplies with ; then . Thus no smaller number is an upper bound, proving . Since , there is no greatest element. Equivalently, each member is followed by a larger member because .

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