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Theoremhood is formal derivability with no undischarged assumptions. A logical formula is a theorem of a calculus exactly when it has an assumption-free formal proof.

The significant-digit factor $m$ in a floating-point representation $(-1{)}^{s}m{\beta }^e$, where $s$ is the sign bit, $\beta$ the radix and $e$ the exponent. For a normal positive binary significand, $1\le m<2$, and the leading one need not be stored. In a subnormal number, the leading digit is zero at the minimum normal exponent scale. The significand is a numerical factor, distinct from the stored trailing fraction bits that encode part of it.

A fixed point of a function on a partially ordered set that is greater than or equal to every other fixed point. For the order-preserving function $H(X)=A\cap \{s:\mathrm{Post}(s)\subseteq X\}$ on the power set of a finite transition system with no terminal states, its greatest fixed point is the set of states from which every infinite path in a transition system remains in $A$. Iteration from the whole state space decreases to this set; every strict decrease removes at least one state.

A first-order theory whose consequences can be decided by an algorithm that terminates on every input first-order sentence. Decidability of a chosen axiom set alone does not ensure decidability of its consequences.

In the language containing one binary equivalence relation $E$, require all classes to have size at most two and infinitely many classes of each of the two sizes. This is a complete theory: every countable model has countably many singleton classes and countably many doubleton classes, giving a class-by-class isomorphism; Downward Lowenheim-Skolem theorem then rules out a sentence separating arbitrary models. It is also an aleph-zero-categorical theory.

It is not finitely axiomatizable. Any finite fragment of the explicit infinitude schemes has a finite model with sufficiently many classes of each size; compactness theorem would make such a finite fragment suffice if any finite axiomatization existed. It is not model-complete: adjoining a new singleton preserves the theory, and subsequently giving that new point a partner also preserves the theory, while changing the existential partner formula at that point. Naming the singleton-class predicate removes this particular obstruction to elementary embeddings.

A set of first-order sentences is satisfiable when it has a nonempty structure in which all its sentences are true. Truth of a sentence is independent of assignment in a first-order structure. The soundness theorem for first-order logic gives consistency from satisfiability, and Gödel's completeness theorem gives the converse for the standard classical deductive system.

The existential theory of a structure is the set of existential sentences with quantifier-free matrices true in it. Its witnesses persist in extensions because quantifier-free truth is preserved by structure embeddings. It differs from an existential diagram, which additionally uses names for Elements.

No finite theory in the full language containing one function symbol for each scalar of an infinite field can axiomatize exactly its nonzero vector spaces. It mentions only finitely many symbols; changing an unused scalar function to violate preservation of zero leaves those finite sentences unchanged. Relative to the vector-space axiom schema, nonzeroness is instead the single axiom $\exists x(x\ne 0)$. Absolute finite axiomatizability and finite additional axiomatizability must be distinguished.

An arithmetic theory is bounded-complete if it proves every true closed formula with only bounded quantifiers. It then proves every true Sigma-1 sentence by choosing a standard witness. If it is also consistent, it cannot prove a false Pi-1 sentence: a standard bounded counterexample supplies a provable contradiction to that universal theorem. This arithmetic condition is distinct from bounded completeness of a statistical model or family.

A first-order model class is finitely axiomatizable in a fixed language if a finite set of sentences, equivalently one finite conjunction, has exactly that model class. Relative finite axiomatizability permits a fixed background theory and asks for only finitely many additional axioms. The distinction matters in an infinite scalar language, where even vector-space structure itself needs infinitely many named-symbol constraints.

The underlying set of elements over which the quantifiers of a first-order structure range. Relation symbols are interpreted as finitary relations on this set, and function symbols as functions on it.

A definable set in a first-order structure $M$ is the set of tuples satisfying one first-order formula, possibly with a specified finite tuple of parameters $\mathbf{b}$ from the structure. A set definable over $B\subseteq M$ uses parameters from $B$. Parameter-free definability uses no extra named elements. The distinction matters: any singleton becomes definable if its own element is allowed as a parameter, while many singletons are not definable without parameters. Finite Boolean combinations of definable sets are definable, using logical conjunction, logical disjunction and logical negation.

The standard successor structure has the natural numbers as domain, the successor function $s(n)=n+1$, and the named element zero. Its complete first-order theory is the theory of successor. Without addition, multiplication, or order, elements outside the zero-generated component are possible in other models of the same complete theory.

A term-generated model has every element denoted by a closed term of its original language. Each element is then parameter-free definable by an equation $x=t$. A term model of a complete Henkin theory is a syntactic construction with this property, but “term-generated” can be stated for an arbitrary structure without choosing such a construction.

An assignment in a first-order structure chooses a domain element for each variable. It determines the value of every first-order term and the truth of every first-order formula, once the interpretations of symbols are fixed. A first-order sentence has no free variables, so its truth is independent of the assignment in a first-order structure. Quantification changes the value assigned to the bound variable while retaining the other values.

An embedding of first-order structures is an injective function preserving function symbols and constants and both preserving and reflecting every relation symbol. Its image is a substructure. Satisfaction of an atomic diagram of a structure in an expansion gives such an embedding of first-order structures by sending each named element to its new interpretation; literal inclusion requires fixing the interpretations of those names.

In a first-order structure, an interpretation assigns a relation of the specified arity to each predicate symbol, a total function of the specified arity to each function symbol, and an element to each constant symbol. Evaluation of first-order terms and truth of logical formulas are then defined recursively. This specifies how symbols acquire their meanings on the underlying set.

A canonical first-order structure is generated by closed-term names: each element is the interpretation of a closed term. In a first-order language without function symbols this says each element is named by a constant. The constant-name convention for canonical first-order structures agrees with this one in the function-free setting. Logical equality identifies different names for the same element.

A function symbol is part of the syntax of a first-order language, with a specified finite arity. In a first-order structure it is interpreted as a function from the corresponding finite power of the domain into the domain. Applying it to the appropriate number of first-order terms forms another term. The symbol itself is distinguished from its interpretation in a particular structure.