[GAP Forum] changing right- to left multiplication

[John McDermott]

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From: David Romano <romanod at math.grinnell.edu>
Date: 25 August 2006 22:40:36 BDT
To: forum at gap-system.org
Subject: changing right- to left multiplication


Hi,

I'm very new to GAP, and am for now primarily interested in using GAP  
as a pedagogical tool for teaching group theory (and possibly  ring  
theory).

At the moment, what I would like to be able to do is have students  
use standard cycle notation for permutation groups, but have  
multiplication reflect composition of transformations being read  
right to left.  Is there any way to do this?

I searched through the GAP manual and did a few searches on the forum  
archive, but have not been able to make any headway.

Thank you for any help you can provide,
David Romano


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