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Choose a -basis of . Each extended absolute value is a norm on the finite-dimensional -vector space , and equivalence of norms in finite dimensions shows that every such norm induces the same topology when is complete. Consequently any two extended absolute values induce the same topology on . By the result of Question 2a, one is a positive real power of the other. Their restrictions to the nontrivially valued field are both , so that power is one. In particular every extension is equal, and therefore equivalent, to .
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