Solution

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From we obtain . Moving every occurrence of to the right and replacing by shows that every group element has the form
The element cannot lie in : otherwise it would commute with , forcing , contrary to having order . Thus the two cosets and are disjoint and each has elements. Hence every -dicyclic group has order .
Existence is explicit. Put and take
Then has order ,
The diagonal matrices and the off-diagonal matrices are distinct, so they form a dicyclic group of order .

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