# Why are linearly ordered R and R/{0} not isomophic?

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## Main Question or Discussion Point

i saw a proof that said “in R/{0} , the set [-1,0) has an upper bound ,but no least upper bound. no such set exists in linearly ordered R” ,but i could not understand it.

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so $[-1,0]$ is compact and using the identity function has a maximum at zero. If you delete the zero you lose compactness and there is no longer a maximum.
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I think I misread this. The issue is that the Real Line with zero deleted doesn't have a smallest positive number for the same reason it doesn't have biggest (i.e. smallest magnitude) negative number. Any non-negative number is an upper bound of $[-1,0)$ but the issue is that if you have $0$ removed from the real line, you must use positive numbers and there isn't a smallest positive number hence no tight upper bound on negative numbers.

The point, I suppose is that $\mathbb R$ and $\mathbb R /{0}$ are both open sets but the former is connected while the latter is not

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