what is th homology group of $\mathbb{Q}$?

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what is the 0'th homology group of $\mathbb{Q}$ I mean $ H_{0}(\mathbb{Q})$?as the 0'th homology group is counting the path component of the space so it should be infinite direct sum of copies of $\mathbb{Z}$,and that exactly the place I feel doubt and I asked myself is it true for infinitely points?

so please help me and guide me ,thank you very much.

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From the definition of singular homology, the $n$th homology group of $\mathbb{Q}$ is trivial except for $H_0(\mathbb{Q};\mathbb{Z})$ which is countably infinitely freely generated abelian, that is $H_0(\mathbb{Q};\mathbb{Z})\cong\displaystyle\bigoplus_{n=1}^{\infty}\mathbb{Z}$.

(really the only cases where you can directly apply the definition of singular homology is when your space is totally disconnected).