An element of a group has finite order if some positive power of it is the identity, and its order is then the least such exponent; otherwise it has infinite order.
In the setting of Routine Facts, Continued: Typed Arithmetic, Maps and Predicativity, let be a group, let be its identity element, unique by Uniqueness of the Identity Element and of Inverses in a Group (i), let , for and , be the integer power, and let .
Order of an element. has finite order if for some , and then the order of is the least such (it exists and is unique by Arithmetic and Order of the Natural Numbers (xv) and Bounds, Least and Greatest Elements, Suprema and Infima for a Partial Order (iii)),
Otherwise has infinite order.
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