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For questions requesting examples of a certain structure or phenomenon

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Awfully sophisticated proof for simple facts

Here's a topological proof that $\mathbb{Z}$ is a PID. Let $p,q$ be relatively prime. Then the line from the origin to the point $(p,q)\in\mathbb{R}^2$ does not pass through any lattice point, and th …