Some authors also consider the fields R and C to be local fields. On the other hand, these two fields, also called Archimedean local fields, share little similarity with the local fields considered here, to a point that Cassels (1986, p. vi) calls them "completely anomalous". Cassels, J. W. S. (1986), Local fields, London Mathematical Society Student Texts, vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/CBO9781139171885, ISBN0-521-30484-9, MR0861410
Some authors also consider the fields R and C to be local fields. On the other hand, these two fields, also called Archimedean local fields, share little similarity with the local fields considered here, to a point that Cassels (1986, p. vi) calls them "completely anomalous". Cassels, J. W. S. (1986), Local fields, London Mathematical Society Student Texts, vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/CBO9781139171885, ISBN0-521-30484-9, MR0861410