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Group Actions · Medium problem

Label the vertices of a regular octagon 0,1,…,70,1,\ldots,7. D8D_8 (order 1616) acts on the 1616 directed edges (ordered adjacent pairs like (0,1)(0,1) or (1,0)(1,0)) by applying each symmetry to both endpoints. This action is transitive. Find ∣Stab⁡((0,1))∣|\operatorname{Stab}((0,1))|.