Huh? Ah --- THAT Jacques! WFL On 9/17/15, Adam P. Goucher <apgoucher@gmx.com> wrote:
It depends on whether one considers Jacques' group to be a sporadic group (in which case 27) or a group of Lie type (in which case 26).
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 10:09 PM From: "Dan Asimov" <asimov@msri.org> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [math-fun] Asimov's group-metric puzzle
Even with one of the J3's changed into a J4, it appears there are now 27 sporadic simple groups.
-Dan
On Sep 17, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Marc LeBrun <mlb@well.com> wrote:
J3 appears in both lists, but J4 in neither?
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