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(*i Some properties about pow and sum have been made with John Harrison i*)
(*i Some Lemmas (about pow and powerRZ) have been done by Laurent Thery i*)
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(**          Definition of the sum functions            *)
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Require Export ArithRing.
Require Export Rpow_def.
Require Export R_Ifp.
Require Export Rbasic_fun.
Require Export R_sqr.
Require Export SplitAbsolu.
Require Export SplitRmult.
Require Export ArithProp.
Local Open Scope nat_scope.
Local Open Scope R_scope.
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(** *       Power              *)
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Infix "^" := pow : R_scope.
Hint Resolve pow_O pow_1 pow_add pow_nonzero: real.
Hint Resolve pow_lt: real.
Hint Resolve Rlt_pow_R1: real.
Hint Resolve Rlt_pow: real.

Lemma pow_incr : forall (x y:R) (n:nat), 0 <= x <= y -> x ^ n <= y ^ n.