Completion of an algebraic closure of a p-adic field is algebraically closed

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The completion of an algebraic closure of is an algebraically closed field. Approximate a polynomial over by one over , use continuity of roots over a non-Archimedean field to obtain a nearby algebraic root, and then use Krasner's lemma to show that the original root already belongs to .

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