[next] [prev] [up] Date: Mon, 20 Jul 81 23:35:00 -0400 (EDT)
[next] [prev] [up] From: David C. Plummer <DCP@MIT-MC >
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Date: 20 July 1981 23:14-EDT
From: Alan Bawden <ALAN at MIT-MC>

Here's a problem I don't think I have seen asked before:

....

Another way of asking the problem would be: How large is the subgroup
generated by just five of the six quarter twists.

According to the Fusrt-Hopcroft-Luks algorithm, they are the same
size. I would appreciate Hoey and Saxe to confirm this (I think I
have all the bugs out of my code). Sorry for such a brute force
method, but it only took a few minutes.


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