Can I extend mathematical induction to real numbers?

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Here is my rather simple idea. I will treat the set of real numbers as a set of discrete continuities, each separated by an Epsilon ball that tends to 0.

So, let's say P(b) is true. We then assume P(k) is true, and prove that P(k+e) is true, where e goes to zero.

I just want to know if this is a valid technique or not because our teacher said that mathematical induction can only be applied to discrete structures, but I see no difficulty in treating a continuous system as a set of infinitesimal discrete quantities. Mak

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This seems unlikely, since there are plenty of bounded subsets of the real line having no maximum or minimum element. The natural numbers are well-ordered; this is induction. The reals are not.