[GAP Forum] Urgent Issue on GAP...

[Justin Walker]

Hi, all,

On Mar 8, 2005, at 8:13, Dan Rossul wrote:

> When I try the command:
>
> gap> g:=Group((1)(2)(3,4));
> Syntax error: ) expected

On input, "(1)(2)..." is invalid.  The parser expects a '*' to be used; 
juxtaposition does not mean "group operation".

In addition, it appears that the GAP engine would prefer that you not 
mention "1"-cycles (your example with inserted '*'s causes more serious 
complaints).

Regards,

Justin

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