Thursday, January 5, 2012

Suppose G is a group, a,b are two elements of G, does o(ab)=lcm(o(a),o(b))?

o(ab) denotes the order of ab, lcm(o(a),o(b)) denotes the Least Common Multiple of o(a) & o(b). And could you please add a short proof or counter example with your answer? many tks~~

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