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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 ii Paper 2 16H c Solution by
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True. This is left distributivity of ordinal multiplication. Fix and induct on . The zero case is immediate. The successor step uses and associativity of ordinal addition. At a limit, multiplication and addition are continuous in their right argument, so taking suprema of the earlier equalities gives .
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