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Archimedean Property of real numbers



Theorem:- Let a be any real number and b any +ve real number. Then there exists a positive integer n such that
nb>a

Proof:- Given that aϵ R & bϵ R+
So there are two possible cases.
Case 1:- When a≤0
In this case the relation nb>a is always true because the value of nb is always +ve.
Case 2:- When a>0
Let us that there exists no +ve integar such that nb>a
Then we have nb≤a    nN
It means that a be the upper bound of set S which is given by
S= {b,2b,3b,………..} = {nb:nN}.

But by completeness property of real numbers, S must have the supremum K(say).
Then              nbK nN
& also           (n+1)bK nN
Because if nN  n+1N
                   nb+b≤K ⩝ n∈N
                       nb≤K-b ⩝ n∈N
It means that (K-b) be the upper bound of  S. So this shows that there is a upper bound of set S which is less than the supremum of S.
But this is contradiction because supremum of a set is the least upper bound.
Hence our assumption is wrong & so ther must be exist an +ve integar n such that
nb>a


By- Vinay Mishra
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