Category:Definitions/Well-Orderings

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The ordering $\preceq$ is a well-ordering on $S$ if and only if every non-empty subset of $S$ has a smallest element under $\preceq$:

$\forall T \subseteq S, T \ne \O: \exists a \in T: \forall x \in T: a \preceq x$