Database REAL AND COMPLEX NUMBERS Construction and axiomatization of real and complex numbers Real and complex number postulates restated as axioms ax-rrecex  
				
		 
		
			
		 
		Description:   Existence of reciprocal of nonzero real number.  Axiom 16 of 22 for real
       and complex numbers, justified by Theorem axrrecex  .  (Contributed by Eric Schmidt , 11-Apr-2007) 
		
			
				
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					Expression 
				 
				
					Assertion 
					ax-rrecex    ⊢    A  ∈   ℝ     ∧   A  ≠   0      →   ∃  x  ∈   ℝ     A  ⁢  x    =   1            
				 
			
		 
		
				Detailed syntax breakdown 
				
					
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						Expression 
					 
						
							0 
								
							 
							cA  class  A    
						
							1 
								
							 
							cr  class   ℝ     
						
							2 
								0  1 
							 
							wcel  wff   A  ∈   ℝ       
						
							3 
								
							 
							cc0  class   0     
						
							4 
								0  3 
							 
							wne  wff   A  ≠   0       
						
							5 
								2  4 
							 
							wa  wff    A  ∈   ℝ     ∧   A  ≠   0         
						
							6 
								
							 
							vx  setvar  x    
						
							7 
								
							 
							cmul  class  ×    
						
							8 
								6 
							 
							cv  setvar  x    
						
							9 
								0  8  7 
							 
							co  class   A  ⁢  x      
						
							10 
								
							 
							c1  class   1     
						
							11 
								9  10 
							 
							wceq  wff    A  ⁢  x    =   1       
						
							12 
								11  6  1 
							 
							wrex  wff   ∃  x  ∈   ℝ     A  ⁢  x    =   1         
						
							13 
								5  12 
							 
							wi  wff     A  ∈   ℝ     ∧   A  ≠   0      →   ∃  x  ∈   ℝ     A  ⁢  x    =   1