One can also glue together different linearly ordered sets to form a circularly ordered set.
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The set of all Dedekind cuts is itself a linearly ordered set ( of sets ).
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There are in fact many ways to construct such a linearly ordered set of numbers, but fundamentally, there are two different approaches:
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For example, given two linearly ordered sets and, one may form a circle by joining them together at positive and negative infinity.
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Beyond the problem of defining set representatives for ordinal numbers, Scott's trick can be used to obtain representatives for cardinal numbers and more generally for linearly ordered sets ( Jech 2003 : 65 ).
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:" Law of Finite Chains Between Events in the Combined Ordering " : There are no infinite chains ( " i . e . ", linearly ordered sets ) of events between two events in the combined ordering ?!.
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Examples of transitive relations include the equality relation on any set, the " less than or equal " relation on any linearly ordered set, and the relation " " x " was born before " y " " on the set of all people.
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Thus, constructing the set of Dedekind cuts serves the purpose of embedding the original ordered set " S ", which might not have had the least-upper-bound property, within a ( usually larger ) linearly ordered set that does have this useful property.