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Arithmetic progression topologies

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ3993517
Source-derived summary

In general topology and number theory, branches of mathematics, one can define various topologies on the set

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of integers or the set

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