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- From: g813214@math.nthu.edu.tw (Lin S.Y.)
- Subject: Re: 2 questions (GRE Subject test)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.070108.18784%g813214@math.nthu.edu.tw>
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- Organization: National Tsing Hua University (HsinChu)
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 07:01:08 GMT
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- For the second question, the group must be of odd order.
- Because if the number of elments in the group is even, then there must be
- an element with order 2, which means that the element is the inverse of
- itself!
- This is for the finite group.
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