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- From: edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Algebra problem
- Date: 12 Oct 1992 12:59:25 -0400
- Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
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- In article <2AD99AA9.24889@news.service.uci.edu> dpick@math.uci.edu (Daniel Pick) writes:
- >Let p be a prime number and let G be a finite group without elements of order
- >p. Show that if a^p = b^p for a,b elements of G, then a = b.
- >
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- It looks like a homework problem to me... I hope you do not get an answer
- from the net and then claim it as your own work. Getting an answer from
- the net may be okay (that is to be determined by the instructor of the
- course), but then you should include that source information.
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