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Joel David Hamkins
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The surreal complex field $\text{No}[i]$, known as the surcomplex field, is a proper-class-sized set-saturated algebraically closed field. It is universal for all fields of characteristic 0. Indeed, under global choice, every class field structure in characteristic 0 embeds as a subfield of $\text{No}[i]$.

Joel David Hamkins
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