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= P-adic numbers
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P-adic numbers are a system of numbers introduced by the mathematician Kurt Hensel in 1897, which extends the concept of the usual rational numbers. They are constructed in a way that allows for a different notion of "closeness" between numbers, based on a chosen prime number \\( p \\). The core idea of p-adic numbers is to define a distance between numbers that is based on divisibility by a prime \\( p \\).