Solution

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True. The valid distributive law for ordinal multiplication is
The synthetic definition of ordinal multiplication takes a sequence of copies of the left factor, indexed by the right factor. A sequence indexed first by and then by is exactly the concatenation of the two corresponding sequences. Taking order types gives the identity. Equivalently, use transfinite induction on , with the successor rule and the supremum rule at limit ordinals.

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