Timeline for Elementary applications of linear algebra over finite fields
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| Jan 17, 2013 at 15:53 | comment | added | Lior Bary-Soroker | @Berlusconi see the beginning of the answer. @Martin, I agree to what you write, but the vector space approach is as simple. | |
| Jan 15, 2013 at 1:14 | comment | added | Martin Brandenburg | Yes every dihedral group is generated by two elements of order 2, so we need to use that the group is abelian. If an abelian group is generated by $m$ elements and all of them have order $2$, then we get an epimorphism from $\mathbb{Z}/2 \oplus \dotsc \oplus \mathbb{Z}/2$, thus the group has $\leq 2^m$ elements. | |
| Jan 14, 2013 at 18:36 | history | answered | Lior Bary-Soroker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |