[GAP Forum] Reduction of elements of FpGroup

[Gaurav Dhingra]

May be here my title of mail is mis-leading. Sorry about that.

On Saturday 19 March 2016 12:01 PM, Gaurav Dhingra wrote:
> Hi GAP forum members,
>
> I am looking at the source code `FpElementNFFunction` (no 
> documentation for it), in that there is a comment
> ```
> # first try whether the group is ``small''
> ```
>
> what does "small" means in GAP terms? Is this some standard jargon 
> used in GAP source code? If so how is this used internally? It will be 
> helpful if you could explain this used in a little deail.
> I believe GAP uses somehow "small" group to refer to groups below 
> certain "order", if this is the case. To what things it makes things 
> useful?
>
> Thank you
> Gaurav