Re: how to list all of the real numbers

On Aug 11, 7:29 pm, Virgil <vir...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1186879071.686632.138...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Ross A. Finlayson" <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There exist counterexamples in standard real analysis showing a least
positive real.

Only in the Bourbaki sense of positive. There are no examples in
standard analysis showing a least strictly positive real in any sense.



Please see "Counterexamples in Real Analysis".

Ross

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