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The reals form a totally ordered field
Statement
The relation of Order on the reals is well defined and makes (The reals form a field) a totally ordered field.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Reals with representatives .
A sequence of rational numbers is null if, for every rational , there is such that for every (Null sequence).
Ordered-field arithmetic in : ; sums and products of eventual lower bounds (The rationals form a totally ordered field).
Dichotomy for non-null Cauchy sequences: eventually or eventually (A non-null Cauchy sequence is eventually bounded away from zero, with constant sign).
is a field (The reals form a field).
In , iff a representative is null; so iff every representative is non-null (The real numbers).
Proof
Positivity is independent of the representative: if for and is null, then beyond some also , so : the defining property holds for with .
Trichotomy: if , any representative is non-null, so by the dichotomy either eventually ( positive) or eventually ( positive); the two exclude each other, and exactly one of positive, , positive holds.
Positives are closed under and : from and eventually, and eventually, with .
Consequently is a total order (trichotomy plus transitivity from closure under sums), compatible with addition (translation preserves the difference) and with multiplication by positives: is a totally ordered field.