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1.1 GroupRecordGPL

GroupRecordGPL( grname )

GroupRecordGPL returns a record that contains information about the underlying group G with name grname together with all available presentations for G.


  gap> GroupRecordGPL( "J2");
  GroupRecordGPL( "J2" )

Such a record contains the following components:

.info contains a list of two entries: the name of the group and its size.

.presentations contains the number of different presentations of G. If this number n is bigger than zero then the components .1 ,..., .n contain these presentations.

.operations contains a function that takes care of the output to the screen when GroupRecordGPL is called.


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