We show that the sheaf of
-connected
components of a Nisnevich sheaf of sets and its universal
-invariant quotient (obtained
by iterating the
-chain
connected components construction and taking the direct limit) agree on field-valued
points. This establishes an explicit formula for the field-valued points of the sheaf of
-connected
components of any space. Given any natural number
, we construct
an
-connected
space on which the iterations of the naive
-connected
components construction do not stabilize before the
-th
stage.