Technical Report TR541:
Simple Equational Specifications of Rational Arithmetic
Lawrence S. Moss
(Jul 2000), 10 pages pages
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We exhibit an initial specification of the rational numbers equipped with addition, subtraction, multiplication, greatest integer function, and absolute value. Our specification uses only the sort of rational numbers. It uses one hidden function; that function is unary. But it does not use an error constant, or extra (hidden) sorts, or conditional equations. All of our work is elementary and self-contained.
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