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Bounded from Above


A set is said to be bounded from above if it has an upper bound.

Consider the real numbers with their usual order. Then for any set M subset= R, the supremum supM exists (in R) if and only if M is bounded from above and nonempty.


See also

Bounded from Below, Least Upper Bound, Supremum, Upper Bound

This entry contributed by Roland Uhl

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Uhl, Roland. "Bounded from Above." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource, created by Eric W. Weisstein. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/BoundedfromAbove.html

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