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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 ia Paper 3 5D i Solution by
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No such nonabelian group exists. Every element, including the identity, satisfies , so . For any ,Therefore the group is an abelian group. This proves that a group of exponent two is abelian without any finiteness assumption.
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