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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 ia Paper 3 5D ii Solution by
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An example is the unitriangular group of degree three over F3, consisting ofThis is an upper unitriangular group of order . Direct matrix multiplication givesThe formula gives closure, identity , and inverse ; associativity follows from matrix multiplication. The two elements and do not commute: their products have respectively and .
Every element has the form with . Since the finite field has characteristic three, the binomial expansion givesHence every nonidentity element has order exactly three. This is a nonabelian finite group with exponent of a finite group equal to three.
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