Important Results
A poset D is a dcpo if and only if each chain in D has a supremum.
If f is a continuous function on a poset D then it has a least fixed point, given as the least upper bound of all finite iterations of f on the least element 0: Vn in N f n(0). This is the Kleene fixed-point theorem.
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