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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=mathematics">mathematics</a>, specifically <a href="page.php?w=group_theory">group theory</a>, the <b>index</b> of a <a href="page.php?w=subgroup">subgroup</a> H in a group G is the number of left <a href="page.php?w=Coset">cosets</a> of H in G, or equivalently, the number of right cosets of H in G.The index is denoted  or  or .Because G is the disjoint union of the left cosets and because each left coset has the same <a href="page.php?w=cardinality">size</a> as H, the index is related to the <a href="page.php?w=order_%28group_theory%29">orders</a></p><p>
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