How statement and proof provenance work
The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.
- Literature-sourced: the exact statement appears in a cited source; only wording and notation differ.
- AI-adapted: a semantically identical restatement of literature-sourced material, modulo indexing, notation, and boundary cases adopted by the library.
- AI-generated: a genuinely novel statement formulated by AI, with no source for the claim itself.
These labels describe origin, not correctness: citations and verification chips remain separate evidence.
FALSE: the rationals are complete
Statement
False claim: every Cauchy sequence of rationals converges to a rational (where means is null).
This is precisely the defect the construction of repairs.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The decimal truncations of , built below.
In : for each there is a largest natural with (only finitely many candidates, since already fails); and .
Ordered-field arithmetic in (The rationals form a totally ordered field, Absolute value and the triangle inequality).
No rational squares to (FALSE: some rational number squares to 2).
A constant sequence is null only if the constant is ; sums of null sequences are null; a Cauchy multiple of a null sequence is null (Null sequence, Null sequences form an ideal).
Archimedean property, so falls below any positive rational (The rationals are Archimedean).
Refutation
For each let be the largest natural with , and set ; then , and (since ).
is Cauchy: for , gives , so ; and forces ; hence , and eventually falls below any .
is null: .
If converged to a rational , then would be null; since is Cauchy, would be null; adding the null , the constant would be null, forcing .
No rational squares to , so is a Cauchy sequence of rationals with no rational limit: the claim is refuted.
Depends on
Used by
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Sources
- T. Tao, Analysis I, 3rd ed., §5.1 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Archimedean property (Wikipedia) (standard reference, not scraped)