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In Chapter 19, we used ordinals to express fixed points as limits. In practice, the natural numbers are sufficient as long as all statements involved are continuous. In this chapter we will study the notion of continuity more closely and show how fixed points and recursion are handled in the continuous case.
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Back, RJ., von Wright, J. (1998). Continuity and Executable Statements. In: Refinement Calculus. Graduate Texts in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1674-2_22
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