> < ^ Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 18:05:04 +0200
> < ^ From: Laurent Bartholdi <Laurent.Bartholdi@math.unige.ch >
> ^ Subject: testing groups

i defined a few rather largish groups (order 3^238, acting on 3^6
points), and noticed quite
suprisingly that the test
gap> D=E;
true
is much, much slower than
gap> Index(D,E)=1;
true
how come????? 

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