Identifying two distinct points of produces a space with homology groups and all higher groups zero. Cover the identified point by the image of two small disks, a contractible wedge of disks, and take as the other open set the complement of the point, a cylinder. Their intersection is two annuli. In the Mayer–Vietoris sequence, of this intersection maps onto of the cylinder with a rank-one kernel, producing . The kernel at has rank one and produces .

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