September 1989 Posting to USENET newsgroup SCI.MATH by Kenneth Almquist

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>From: ka@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Kenneth Almquist)
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Subject: Re: All groups of orders 1 through 16
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Date: 31 Aug 89 14:21:35 GMT
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steiner@bgsuvax.UUCP (Ray Steiner) writes:
> Sorry, but Rotman's book on group theory proves that there are
> only 5 groups of order 12 and 14 groups of order 16 (not 6 and 19
> respectively). Some of the groups generated here are surely
> isomorphic.

You're right, there was a bug in my routine for testing isomorphism.
The fifth group of order 12 and the ninth through thirteenth groups of
order 16 (reading left to right) are isomorphic to earlier groups.

It's hard to test a program when you don't know what the output is
supposed to be.

Kenneth Almquist

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