Exercise 1160Logic, sets and proofs › Quantifiers and negationL1Added 3 Nov 2026
Negating nested quantifiers
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Statement
Negate the statement: . Interpret the negation.
Hint
Apply the negation rules layer by layer: , , and negate the innermost inequality.
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Solution
Negation.
Interpretation. There is some such that, no matter how far we go, some term of the sequence is at distance from . This is exactly the definition of " does not converge to ".
Conclusion. The negation captures non-convergence to .