SOLUTION: Please help me with this real analysis question: If a nonempty set S of real numbers is bounded above, prove that sup S is the unique real number

SOLUTION: Please help me with this real analysis question: If a nonempty set S of real numbers is bounded above, prove that sup S is the unique real number

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Question 1041913: Please help me with this real analysis question: If a nonempty set S of real numbers is bounded above, prove that sup S is the unique real number
Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Did you mean to say that supS is the least among all upper bounds of S? Is this the "unique" real number you're referring to?
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