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ontario
12y ago
Even though this sounds plausible, it's actually false. The counterxample is the first uncountable ordinal ω₁ [1], viewed as a well-ordered set (and thus a fortiori totally ordered). For every a,b in ω₁, the closed interval [a,b] is co