Or you could use GAP help system:
http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/ref/chap2.html
Just enter
?Mathieu
in the GAP prompt and it will display the manual entry for MathieuGroup in the
GAP
session.
gap> ?Mathieu
Help: Showing `Reference: MathieuGroup'
50.1-11 MathieuGroup
‣ MathieuGroup( [filt, ]degree ) ──────────────────── function
constructs the Mathieu group of degree degree in the category given by the
filter filt, where degree must be in the set { 9, 10, 11, 12, 21, 22, 23, 24
}. If filt is not given it defaults to IsPermGroup (43.1-1).
─────────────────── Example ────────────────────
gap> MathieuGroup( 11 );
Group([ (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11), (3,7,11,8)(4,10,5,6) ])
─────────────────────────────────────────────
You can also use SetHelpViewer function to change the default viewer - for
example,
on my computer I open GAP help pages with the browser. See SetHelpViewer
documentation
at http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/ref/chap2.html#X863FF9087EDA8DF9 and
also
"The gap.ini and gaprc files" for the documentation on customising GAP to use
this
setting by default
http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/ref/chap3.html#X7FD66F977A3B02DF
You can also type ??Mathieu - the difference is that with one `?` it looks for
all
help entries that *start* with "Mathieu", while with `??` it looks for all
entries
which contain the substring "Mathieu", so in this case you will be also pointed
to
an entry from the documentation for the Orb package:
gap> ??Mathieu
Help: several entries match this topic - type ?2 to get match [2]
[1] Reference: MathieuGroup
[2] orb (not loaded): The Mathieu group M_{11} acting in dimension 24
gap> ?2
Using ? and ?? is more reliable: it will search not only in the GAP manuals,
but also in the manuals of all GAP packages available in your GAP installation.
It guarantees to return results from the documentation precisely for the
version
of GAP you're using. Therefore, I'm encouraging everyone to use this feature of
GAP and not just a search engine (which may return results in different order
dependently on your location; may point you to GAP documentation for older
versions of GAP still hosted elsewhere; may not point to the relevant pieces
of functionality in GAP packages, etc.).
Hope this helps
Alexander
> On 1 Aug 2015, at 14:43, Gordon Royle <gordon.ro...@uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Yes, you can type "GAP Mathieu 11" into Google and the answer will appear
> with a reference to "Section 50 Group Libraries" of the GAP manual.
>
> Or you could cut out Google, and just direct go to the index of the GAP
> manual and search for "Mathieu" or "MathieuGroup" and the same answer will
> appear.
>
> Or you could go to Wikipedia and search for "Mathieu Group" and get the same
> information.
>
>
>> On 1 Aug 2015, at 9:23 pm, abdulhakeem alayiwola <lovepgro...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear forum,
>> Can someone help with the construction or presentation of Mathieu group
>> M11 on GAP.
>> Best regards.
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