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Atlas.RealAnalysis.code.RealNumbers.Basic

The real numbers form a strict ordered ring, contain via an injective ring homomorphism, and satisfy the least upper bound property: every nonempty set bounded above admits a least upper bound.

Uniqueness (up to ordered ring isomorphism) of the real numbers: any conditionally complete linear strict ordered field F is isomorphic to as an ordered ring.

There exists a unique positive real number r with r ^ 2 = 2, namely √2; in particular √2 ∈ ℝ \ ℚ.