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Construction of Q

We define an equivalence relation on : iff . Note that ``simulates'' a division in Z. . We will refer to the elements of Q by giving them a subscript . The elements of Z can be embedded as follows: such that . Furthermore we can define:



Alex Lopez-Ortiz
Mon Feb 23 16:26:48 EST 1998