The ultrapower embedding associated with a measure on has critical point . For every ,
so . Hence every measurable cardinal is 1-strong.
An uncountable cardinal is measurable when it carries a nonprincipal ultrafilter that is -complete. For an inaccessible , the cardinal is 1-strong when there is an elementary embedding
into a transitive model, with critical point and .
The fundamental theorem on measurable cardinals constructs from the well-founded ultrapower and its ultrapower embedding , whose critical point is . The embedding fixes . If , then , and elementarity gives
Both and belong to the transitive target, so . Thus , proving that every measurable cardinal is 1-strong.