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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2022 Paper 2 9 c Solution by
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Write . By Lagrange's theorem, the order of a group element divides four. Since no element has order four, all three nonidentity elements have order two. Thus every element is its own inverse. For any ,so the group is Abelian. Also cannot equal or , by cancellation and the fact that are distinct nonidentity elements. Hence . The remaining products are forced, givingThe map , , , preserves this table under componentwise addition modulo two. Thereforethe Klein four-group, also called the Vierergruppe.
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