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Revision as of 12:33, 4 February 2009
If g^k=1 then dividing by g^k you get g^(-k)=1. So ord(1/g) is less than or equal to ord(g). This goes both ways, so equality must hold.
--Awika 14:42, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Question about Chapter 3, Problem 4
I'm not sure why this problem took me awhile to think through...something about doing things algebraically with representations of the order didn't seem to fit well with me...but I think this is definitely a good approach to the problem
