In mathematics, an ultrametric space is a special kind of metric space in which the triangle inequality is replaced with . Sometimes the associated metric is also called a non-Archimedean metric or super-metric. Although some of the theorems for ultrametric spaces may seem strange at a first glance, they appear naturally in many applications.
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