 Ascending chain condition (source code)

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= Ascending chain condition
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The ascending chain condition requires every chain
$$
I_1\subseteq I_2\subseteq\cdots
$$
of ideals to stabilize. A ring is Noetherian exactly when it satisfies this condition, equivalently when every ideal is finitely generated.

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