Baby Monster group
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In mathematics, the Baby Monster group B (or just Baby Monster) is a group of order
- 241 · 313 · 56 · 72 · 11 · 13 · 17 · 19 · 23 · 31 · 47
- = 4154781481226426191177580544000000
- ≈ 4 · 1033.
The Baby Monster group is one of the sporadic groups, and has the second-highest order of these, with the highest order being that of the Monster group. The double cover of the Baby Monster is in fact a subgroup of the Monster group.
The smallest faithful matrix representation of the Baby Monster is of size 4370 over the finite field of order 2.
External links
- MathWorld: Baby monster group (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BabyMonsterGroup.html)