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Old November 4th, 2009, 10:15 AM
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Well suppose there was an x \in S with y<x for all y \in S. Clearly we would need to have x<1, because all elements of S are <1. Thus the open interval (x,1) is not empty, and all of its elements are in S and all of them are greater than x - this clearly contradicts the definition of x.
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