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For example, are taken as two copies of the unique (up to isomorphisms) group of order 2, say Then, with the operation element by element. For instance, and

With a direct product, some natural group homomorphisms are obtained for free: the projection maps defined by

are called the coordinate functions.

Also, every homomorphism to the direct product is totally determined by its component functions

For any group and any integer repeated application of

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