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It is usually extraordinarily difficult to prove uniqueness of a simple group given its order, or even given its order and complete character table. In particular one of the last and hardest steps in the classification of finite simple groups was proving uniqueness of the Ree groups of type 2G2 $^2G_2$ of order q^3(q^3+1)(q-1), $q^3(q^3+1)(q-1)$, (for q $q$ of the form 3^(2n+1)) $3^{2n+1}$) which was finally solved in a series of notoriously difficult papers by Thompson and Bombieri. Although they were trying to prove the group was unique, proving that there were at most 2 would have been no easier.

Another example is given in the paper by Higman in the book "finite simple groups" where he tries to characterize Janko's first group given not just its order 175560, but its entire character table. Even this takes several pages of complicated arguments.

In other words, there is no easy way to bound the number of simple groups of given order, unless a lot of very smart people have overlooked something easy.

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It is usually extraordinarily difficult to prove uniqueness of a simple group given its order, or even given its order and complete character table. In particular one of the last and hardest steps in the classification of finite simple groups was proving uniqueness of the Ree groups of type 2G2 of order q^3(q^3+1)(q-1), (for q of the form 3^(2n+1)) which was finally solved in a series of notoriously difficult papers by Thompson and Bombieri. Although they were trying to prove the group was unique, proving that there were at most 2 would have been no easier.

Another example is given in the paper by Higman in the book "finite simple groups" where he tries to characterize Janko's first group given not just its order 175560, but its entire character table. Even this takes several pages of complicated arguments.

In other words, there is no easy way to bound the number of simple groups of given order, unless a lot of very smart people have overlooked something easy.