Real Addition is Well-Defined

Theorem
The operation of addition on the set of real numbers $$\R$$ is well-defined.

Proof
From the definition, the real numbers are the set of all equivalence classes $$\left[\!\left[{\left \langle {x_n} \right \rangle}\right]\!\right]$$ of Cauchy sequences of rational numbers.

Let $$x = \left[\!\left[{\left \langle {x_n} \right \rangle}\right]\!\right], y = \left[\!\left[{\left \langle {y_n} \right \rangle}\right]\!\right]$$, where $$\left[\!\left[{\left \langle {x_n} \right \rangle}\right]\!\right]$$ and $$\left[\!\left[{\left \langle {y_n} \right \rangle}\right]\!\right]$$ are such equivalence classes.

From the definition of real addition, $$x + y$$ is defined as $$\left[\!\left[{\left \langle {x_n} \right \rangle}\right]\!\right] + \left[\!\left[{\left \langle {y_n} \right \rangle}\right]\!\right] = \left[\!\left[{\left \langle {x_n + y_n} \right \rangle}\right]\!\right]$$.

We need to show that:


 * $$\left \langle {x_n} \right \rangle, \left \langle {x'_n} \right \rangle \in \left[\!\left[{x}\right]\!\right]_{\mathcal{R}}, \left \langle {y_n} \right \rangle, \left \langle {y'_n} \right \rangle \in \left[\!\left[{y}\right]\!\right]_{\mathcal{R}} \Longrightarrow \left \langle {x_n + y_n} \right \rangle = \left \langle {x'_n + y'_n} \right \rangle$$.