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Charles Matthews
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I've never heard of $K_2(R)$ having a description as a more easily/elementarily described object attached to $R$. Borel showed that $K_2(R)$ is torsion. The order of $K_2(R)$ appears in "Theorem" 31 of Soulé's notes on higher algebraic K-theory of rings of algebraic integers where $K_2(R)$ (I think that "Theorem" 31 is called the Quillen-Lichtenbaum conjecture).

Jonah Sinick
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