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The idea of considering new ways to measure the “distance” between two rational numbers, and then of considering the corresponding completions, did not arise merely from some desire to generalize, but rather from several concrete situations involving problems from algebra and number theory.
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Gouvêa, F.Q. (2020). Apéritif. In: p-adic Numbers. Universitext. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47295-5_1
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