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> Tim Hsu writes in his e-mail article of 1994/04/13
>
> Hi. I would like to be able to do the following thing: I have a
> presentation of a finite group G, and I would like to be able to know,
> say, the 100 "shortest" ways of expressing a word in the generators
> which represents the identity in G as a product of conjugates of
> relators. Is this easy to do in GAP? If not, do you know of another
> program which does this?
>
I'd guess that one has to measure that length as the number of relators
involved, is it correct?
I believe there are efficient algorithms which solve a simpler "abelianized"
problem, i.e. giving the answers modulo $G'$.

Dima