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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 ib Paper 4 2G Solution by
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The Fundamental theorem of finitely generated abelian groups expresses every finite abelian group of this order as a product of cyclic groups of prime-power order. Their exponents correspond to the partitions of an integer :These are pairwise nonisomorphic: the largest order of a group element distinguishes all except the two groups with largest element order , and those have respectively and elements annihilated by multiplication by . The classification exhausts the possibilities, so there are five isomorphism classes.
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