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Past exam of the algebra 2 course of the University of Oxford 2014 3 b Solution by
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Use the Chinese remainder theorem to separate relatively prime factors:These five cyclic prime-power summands are the elementary-divisor form. Leave one summand aside and combine the factors of orders , which are pairwise coprime. Their direct sum of modules is cyclic of order . The invariant-factor canonical form is thereforeIts group order is , and its exponent of a finite group is , providing independent checks on the decomposition. Since its exponent is smaller than its order, itself is not cyclic.
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