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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 1997
We prove that it is consistent with the axioms of ZFC, relative to the consistency of ZFC itself, that the Baire number of the Stone representation space of the Boolean algebra [Pscr ](ω)/fin equals the distributivity number of [Pscr ](ω)/fin. This answers a question of Balcar, Pelant and Simon in [1].