Tensoring is not left exact

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Considering

$$0\to \Bbb Z \to \Bbb Z\to \Bbb Z/(2)\to 0$$ We want to show that the tensor product is not left exact by tensoring with $\Bbb Z/(2)$, which apparently gives us what we want.

But I did this, and I get

$$0\to \Bbb Z/(2)\overset{\sim}{\to}\Bbb Z/(2)\overset{0}{\to} \Bbb Z/(2)$$

Where I can't see why this isn't exact? Is there a reason why I can't have the zero map on the right?

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The question title is "tensoring is not left exact," so you should probably be looking for failures in exactness towards the left of the second sequence.

The map $\Bbb{Z}\rightarrow\Bbb{Z}$ in the original sequence is multiplication by $2$. You need to figure out what the induced map is after tensoring by $\Bbb{Z}/2\Bbb{Z}$. (The important thing is that it is NOT an isomorphism, as you initially thought.)