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18 CHAPTER 3. FINITELY GENERATED ABELIAN GROUPS<br />

as claimed. The ni are determined by G, because ni is the smallest positive integer n<br />

such that nG requires at most s + r − i genera<strong>to</strong>rs (we see from the representation<br />

(3.0.1) of G as a product that ni has this property <strong>and</strong> that no smaller positive<br />

integer does).

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