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Not a topology. For every integer k≥2, the set Uk​=Z∖kZ is periodic with period k, so belongs to the family. Their union is Z∖{0}: for a nonzero n, choose k>∣n∣, which cannot divide n. But this union has no positive integer period. If it had period k, membership of −k would force membership of zero. Again arbitrary unions fail the topology axiom.

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