On 10/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm taking a course in algebra, and I'd like to be able to play with groups 
> of "small" order without a lot of hand computation.  GAP has a highly 
> comprehensive database, which I'd like to use.  However, I don't know GAP, 
> and I don't really want to learn it just for a single application.
>

It gets used by Sage in some cases (group isomorphism testing, I think).
I bet writing a wrapper wouldn't be hard.

> How much work would it be to wrap this database and include it in Sage?  
> Also, would other people be interested in this functionality?
>

It's GPL-incompatible so can't be included in Sage, at least not as it is.
It's currently a Sage optional package.

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