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In order to prove the conjecture that ‘the order of the subgroup divides the order of the group’ in section 3.1, we introduced certain subsets of a group called right cosets. As pointed out in definition 3.1.1 we could equally well have considered left cosets. This leads at once to certain questions.
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Gardiner, C.F. (1980). Factor Groups, Permutation Representations, Finite Point Groups. In: A First Course in Group Theory. Universitext. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8117-4_4
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