p-adic numbers

N Koblitz, N Koblitz - p-adic Numbers, p-adic Analysis, and Zeta-Functions, 1984 - Springer
If X is a nonempty set, a distance, or metric, on X is a function d from pairs of elements (x, y)
of X to the nonnegative real numbers such that (1) d (x, y)= 0 if and only if x= y.(2) d (x, y)= d …

p-adic numbers

N Koblitz - 1977 - Springer
A set X together with a metric d is called a metric space. The same set X can give rise to
many different metric spaces (X, d), as we'll soon see. The sets X we'll be dealing with will …