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Commutative Group (Posted on 2006-09-18) Difficulty: 2 of 5
Here is a simple problem from abstract algebra.

Prove that a group with exactly five elements is commutative.

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Solution No thinking, only researching | Comment 1 of 8
From the Mathworld definition of "CYCLIC GROUP": "all groups of prime group order are cyclic".

From the definition of "GROUP ORDER": "The number of elements in a group" -- in this case, 5, a prime.

Again from the definition of "CYCLIC GROUP": "Cyclic groups are abelian".

From the definition of "ABELIAN GROUP": "A group for which the elements commute is called abelian".

So... without even understanding a single one of those definitions, we got a QED!!

  Posted by Old Original Oskar! on 2006-09-18 10:12:00
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