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1621: Dihedral Group
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I was going to wait until next week to post this, but I couldn't wait. (Plus, it was quick for posting.) There will be something on Twitter in a few days.

A dihedral group is the group of rotational and reflectional symmetries of a regular polygon. If the polygon has 12 sides, as the dodecagon in the comic, then it has 12 rotational symmetries, because you can map it onto itself with every 15 degree rotation, and 12 reflectional symmetries, one for each of the rotations, plus the original. This gives it a total of 24.

In general, for any n-gon, the order number will be 2n.

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