Law of trichotomy
Law (all real numbers are positive, negative, or 0) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Law of trichotomy?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS
In mathematics, the law of trichotomy states that every real number is either positive, negative, or zero.[1]
More generally, a binary relation R on a set X is trichotomous if for all x and y in X, exactly one of xRy, yRx and x = y holds. Writing R as <, this is stated in formal logic as: