Thanks Ignat, This idea about IdGroup() was also in most of the other replies and yes, it helps. I suppose that if StructureDescription() was perfect we wouldn't be doing Group Theory in the first place. ;-) Kind regards, nilo
2006/3/5, ignat soroko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, Nilo, > > I read some of your questions in GAP forum and I'd like to suggest a solution. > > You like the function StructureDescription. This is a wonderful > function, but it gives only a rough idea what the group is. It does > not determine the group up to isomorphism. What determines the group > up to isomorphism, is IdGroup() function. Type IdGroup(G) and you will > get a pair [ord, nr]. That means that G is isomorphic to the group > number nr among all groups of order ord, that is to > SmallGroup(ord,nr);. > > Thus to determine a group up to isomorphism one should use IdGroup(). > And to get some idea what is the structure of the group, one can use > StructureDescription(). > > Hope this helps. > > Ignat > _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
