Hi,
Is there a GAP command (or series of commands) which, given a finite group G, would return a chain 1=G0 < G1 < G2 < ... < Gn=G of normal subgroups of G, where the length, n, of the chain, is as large as possible? (I've written a rather naive procedure to do that, using NormalSubgroups(G), but it gets computationally intensive if the group has hundreds of normal subgroups.... and I suspect there is a much better procedure out there...)

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

ken

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