Thompson sporadic group

This article is about the sporadic simple group found by John G. Thompson. For the three unusual infinite groups F, T and V found by Richard Thompson, see Thompson groups.
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In the area of modern algebra known as group theory, the Thompson group Th is a sporadic simple group of order

   90,745,943,887,872,000
= 215 · 310 · 53 · 72 · 13 · 19 · 31
≈ 9×1016.