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Pete L. Clark
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In both cases the transcendence degree is the cardinality of the continuum. CH is not needed.

This is a corollary of the following result: let $K$ be any infinite field, and let $L/K$ be any extension. Then

$\# L = \operatorname{max} (\# K, \operatorname{trdeg}_K L)$.

Pete L. Clark
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