Smallest Element is Infimum/Examples/Example 1

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Example of Use of Smallest Element is Infimum

Let $S$ be the subset of the real numbers $\R$ defined as:

$S = \set {1, 2, 3}$

Then the smallest element of $S$ is $1$.

From Smallest Element is Infimum it follows that:

$\inf S = 1$


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