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Math and science::Analysis::Tao::05. The real numbers

Upper bound

Let \( E \) be a subset of \( \mathbb{R} \), and let \( M \) be a real number. We say that \( M \) is an upper bound for \( E \) if [...] for every element \( x \) in \( E \).