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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 ib Paper 1 12F c Solution by
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Not a topology. For every integer , the set is periodic with period , so belongs to the family. Their union is : for a nonzero , choose , which cannot divide . But this union has no positive integer period. If it had period , membership of would force membership of zero. Again arbitrary unions fail the topology axiom.
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