Is a p-adic number field and a finite algebraic extension of it ultrametric?

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An ultrametric space is a special kind of metric space in which the triangle inequality is replaced with $d(x,z)\leq\max\left\{d(x,y),d(y,z)\right\}$.

Is a p-adic number field and a finite algebraic extension of it ultrametric?

This theorem asserts that a p-adic number field and a finite algebraic extension of it are not ultrametric:

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