I must be missing something. Why can't you just check the order of the element?
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:53 PM, jimfar wrote:
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> I can generate a list from any given group, but how would I go about
> generating a list of just 3 or 5 cycles?
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> >
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I can find the order of the element, but I am looking to generate a
list of all of the 3 cycles in something like AlternatingGroup(5)
where the list will not go on for too long.
On May 14, 5:04 pm, David Joyner wrote:
> I must be missing something. Why can't you just check the order of the
> el
Why doesn't the obvious 1-liner
[x for x in AlternatingGroup(5) if x.order()==3]
work? Again, am I missing something?
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:57 PM, jimfar wrote:
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> I can find the order of the element, but I am looking to generate a
> list of all of the 3 cycles in something like Alterna
Thanks, I was confusing myself with the definition of the order of an
element with order of the cycle.
On May 14, 6:52 pm, David Joyner wrote:
> Why doesn't the obvious 1-liner
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> [x for x in AlternatingGroup(5) if x.order()==3]
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> work? Again, am I missing something?
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2009
Dear Jim,
On May 15, 4:03 am, jimfar wrote:
> Thanks, I was confusing myself with the definition of the order of an
> element with order of the cycle.
Are you really confusing it?
As much as I understood, you only want those elements that have a
single (!) cycle of length 3. Then, order() is t
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:36 AM, wrote:
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> Dear Jim,
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> On May 15, 4:03 am, jimfar wrote:
>> Thanks, I was confusing myself with the definition of the order of an
>> element with order of the cycle.
>
> Are you really confusing it?
>
> As much as I understood, you only want those elements tha
