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Midpoint in the waters between Scylla and Charybdis...



Dan Zuras wrote:
>   X \subset Y ==> if (inf(X)==inf(Y)) then mid(X) <= mid(Y)
>   X \subset Y ==> if (sup(X)==sup(Y)) then mid(X) >= mid(Y)
>
>   ...  The last 2 for well ordering.

Well-ordering of what?  Please note that at Level 1 the natural order
of the Reals is not a well-order (though it is at Level 2, because of
the next_up() function -- and really because the Level 2 set is finite).

Did you (Dan) mean "total ordering" of inf <= mid <= sup perhaps?

Michel.
---Sent: 2012-03-09 03:48:47 UTC