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The goal of this chapter is to begin to lay a solid foundation for the theory we described informally in Chapter 1. The main idea will be to introduce a different absolute value function on the field of rational numbers.
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Gouvêa, F.Q. (2020). Foundations. In: p-adic Numbers. Universitext. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47295-5_2
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