Talk:Primary cyclic group

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Please update this rating as the article progresses, or if the rating is inaccurate. Click to show/hide comments. Please add to or update the comments to suggest improvements to the article. Geometry guy 16:02, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Isn't "finitely generated torsion group" just a tortuous way of saying "finite abelian group"? Also, some clarification is required for the "uniqueness" statement: the choice of subgroups themselves is not unique, even though the cardinalities of the subgroups are unique (up to re-ordering), no? Dmharvey 23:16, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

True, finitely generated torsion group is a long way of saying finite abelian group. Also good point about the use of the word unique, I will clarify. This article is, of course, trivial at present, but it just seemed nice to have it there to link from where the term was used. Elroch 00:05, 21 April 2006 (UTC)