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For a reduced rational number x=a/b with b>0, the height of a rational number is
H(x)=max{∣a∣,b}.
(1)
Condition (i) holds because only finitely many coprime integer pairs have bounded maximum.
Condition (iii) also holds. The standard height inequality
H(x±y)≤2H(x)H(y)
(2)
gives
h(x+y)+h(x−y)≤2h(x)+2h(y)+2log2.
(3)
Condition (ii) fails: for positive integers m,
h(2m)−4h(m)=log2−3logm,
(4)
whose absolute value is unbounded. Thus precisely conditions (i) and (iii)​ hold. This is consistent with Q/nQ=0 although the additive group Q is not finitely generated.

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