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  1. Department of Mathematics, 08544, Princeton, NJ, USA

    John H. Conway

  2. Institute of Computational Mathematics, Technische Universrtät Braunschweig, 38016, Braunschweig, Germany

    Heiko Dietrich

  3. Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Eamonn A. O’Brien

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Conway, J.H., Dietrich, H. & O’Brien, E.A. Counting Groups: Gnus, Moas, and other Exotica. The Mathematical Intelligencer 30, 6–15 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02985731

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