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The back of the book gives an answer, but I don't find it helpful. Does anyone have a good explaination on how to work this problem?

--Akcooper 16:34, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Thm. 4.2 says that Let a be an element of order n in a group and let k be a positive integer. Then $ <a^k> = <a^(gcd(n,k))> $

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