I am working on one example from Munkres book "Topology"and I would like to clarify one question.
Example: Consider the set $[0,1)$ of real numbers and the set $\mathbb{Z}_+$ of positive integers, both in their usual orders; give $\mathbb{Z}_+\times [0,1)$ the dictionary order. This set has the same order type as the set of nonnegative reals; the function $$f(n\times t)=n+t-1$$ is the required bijective order-preserving correspondence. On the other hand, the set $[0,1)\times \mathbb{Z}_+$ in the dictionary order has quite a different order type; for example, every element of this ordered set has an immediate successor.
My questions:
1) I've checked that $[0,1)\times \mathbb{Z}_+$ has the same order type as the set of nonnegative reals, right?
2) Any element $(t,n)$ from $[0,1)\times \mathbb{Z}_+$ has immediate successor, namely $(t,n+1)$. Right?
3) But elements in $\mathbb{Z}_+\times [0,1)$ have not immediate successors, right?
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