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Conjugacy and the Class Equation · Hard problem

How many conjugacy classes does D8D_8 (the dihedral group of order 1616, symmetries of a regular octagon) have? Recall that conjugacy classes arise from the rotation subgroup and reflection classes, with the parity of nn determining whether reflections split into one or two classes.