[GAP Forum] Generators

[Petr Savicky]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:10:46AM +0000, abdulhakeem alayiwola wrote:
> why does Gap list for example Dihedral group of order 8 as pc group of size
> 8 with 3 generators. when we know d8 has 2 generators?

The dihedral group can also be obtained as a permutation group

  DihedralGroup(IsPermGroup, 8); # Group([ (1,2,3,4), (2,4) ])

In this case, it has two generators.

Hope this helps.
Petr Savicky.