\(\widehat{\mathbb{Q}}\) and tensor products.
The definition of \(\widehat{\mathbb{Q}}\) is easy if you know about tensor products of additive abelian groups.
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The profinite completion \(\widehat{\mathbb{Q}}\) of \(\mathbb{Q}\) is the tensor product \(\mathbb{Q}\otimes_{\mathbb{Z}}\widehat{\mathbb{Z}}\), or \(\widehat{\mathbb{Q}}=\mathbb{Q}\otimes\widehat{\mathbb{Z}}\) for short.
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