Dear Vahid, There is a function SmallGroupsInformation that will be helpful to answer this question.
You will see that the ordering may vary dependently on the order of the group, for example: gap> SmallGroupsInformation(256); There are 56092 groups of order 256. They are sorted by their ranks. 1 is cyclic. 2 - 541 have rank 2. 542 - 6731 have rank 3. 6732 - 26972 have rank 4. 26973 - 55625 have rank 5. 55626 - 56081 have rank 6. 56082 - 56091 have rank 7. 56092 is elementary abelian. For the selection functions the values of the following attributes are precomputed and stored: IsAbelian, PClassPGroup, RankPGroup, FrattinifactorSize and FrattinifactorId. This size belongs to layer 2 of the SmallGroups library. IdSmallGroup is available for this size. gap> SmallGroupsInformation(105); There are 2 groups of order 105. 1 is of type 7:3x5. 2 is of type c105. The groups whose order factorises in at most 3 primes have been classified by O. Hoelder. This classification is used in the SmallGroups library. This size belongs to layer 1 of the SmallGroups library. IdSmallGroup is available for this size. gap> SmallGroupsInformation(2*5*7*9); There are 32 groups of order 630. They are sorted by their Frattini factors. 1 has Frattini factor [ 210, 1 ]. 2 has Frattini factor [ 210, 2 ]. 3 has Frattini factor [ 210, 3 ]. 4 has Frattini factor [ 210, 4 ]. 5 has Frattini factor [ 210, 5 ]. 6 has Frattini factor [ 210, 6 ]. 7 has Frattini factor [ 210, 7 ]. 8 has Frattini factor [ 210, 8 ]. 9 has Frattini factor [ 210, 9 ]. 10 has Frattini factor [ 210, 10 ]. 11 has Frattini factor [ 210, 11 ]. 12 has Frattini factor [ 210, 12 ]. 13 - 32 have trivial Frattini subgroup. For the selection functions the values of the following attributes are precomputed and stored: IsAbelian, IsNilpotentGroup, IsSupersolvableGroup, IsSolvableGroup, LGLength, FrattinifactorSize and FrattinifactorId. This size belongs to layer 2 of the SmallGroups library. IdSmallGroup is available for this size. gap> Best regards, Alexander On 13 Aug 2010, at 23:50, Vahid Dabbaghian wrote: > > Dear GAP Forum, > > Does anybody know what type of ordering is used in the list of small groups > given by the function AllSmallGroups? > > Regards > Vahid > ____________________________________________ > Program Director > Modelling of Complex Social Systems (MoCSSy) > The IRMACS Centre (ASB 10905) > Simon Fraser University, BC Canada > Tel: 778-782-7854 > http://mocssy.irmacs.sfu.ca/ > > _______________________________________________ > Forum mailing list > Forum@mail.gap-system.org > http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum