question on least upper bound principle.

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Show that the Least Upper Bound Principle does not hold for the rational numbers. This is to say, show that there is a subset S of Q which is bounded above but such that there is no L ∈ Q which is a least upper bound of S.

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Consider the set $S$ of all rational numbers whose square is less than two.