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SL(2,Z3)SL(2,\mathbb Z_3), the 2×22\times2 matrices mod 33 with determinant exactly 11, has order 2424. It acts transitively on the 88 nonzero vectors of Z32\mathbb Z_3^2 by matrix-vector multiplication. Find ∣Stab⁡((1,0))∣|\operatorname{Stab}((1,0))|.