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For questions related to teaching mathematics. For questions in Mathematics Education as a scientific discipline there is also the tag mathematics-education. Note you may also ask your question on http://matheducators.stackexchange.com/.

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What is the standard 2-generating set of the symmetric group good for?

I've been teaching to master students the standard generating sets of the symmetric and alternating groups and I wasn't able to give a simple, convincing example where it's useful to use the two-generating …
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