Lecture 5: The Archimedian Property, Density of the Rationals, and Absolute Value

MIT 18.100A Real Analysis, Fall 2020
Instructor: Dr. Casey Rodriguez
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We show that the real numbers satisfy the Archimedean property, a property we will constantly use, and we prove rationals are dense in the reals. We also rigorously define absolute values and the properties that follow from this definition.

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