[GAP Forum] Question

[Alexander Hulpke]

Dear Forum,

On Dec 21, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Abdulsatar Al-Juburie <a.j.t.al-juburie at newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:

> I have a presentation of group G (Permutation group) and w in G. 
> However, my question is that "there is any way in GAP to find w written as a product of generators of the presentation?"

The manual section

39.5 Expressing Group Elements as Words in Generators

explains how to do this (both a shortest possible word with much memory requirement, or a reasonably short word with less memory cost).

Merry Christmas!

   Alexander Hulpke