Solution

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For GCH arithmetic at aleph omega, let . Use monotonicity of cardinal exponentiation, the law , and for infinite cardinals in ZFC. Since ,
Thus , and the generalized continuum hypothesis yields
The lower bound embeds binary-valued functions into -valued ones; the upper bound codes each value by a subset and combines the resulting pairs of indices. In particular the equality before applying the hypothesis is a ZFC equality.

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