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In this section we study a characteristic of the minimal walk that satisfies certain triangle inequalities reminiscent of those found in an ultra-metric space. Some applications of the corresponding metric-like theory of ω1 will appear already in this section and some of them will later on get separate treatments.
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(2007). Metric Theory of Countable Ordinals. In: Walks on Ordinals and Their Characteristics. Progress in Mathematics, vol 263. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8529-3_3
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