This is one of four parts of the GAP documentation, the others being the GAP Tutorial, a beginner's introduction to GAP, Programming in GAP and Extending GAP, which provide information for those who want to write their own GAP extensions.
This manual, the GAP reference manual contains the official definitions of GAP functions. It should give all information to someone who wants to use GAP as it is. It is not intended to be read cover-to-cover.
This manual is divided into chapters. Each chapter is divided into sections and, within each section, important definitions are numbered. References are therefore triples.
Chapter The Help System describes the help system, which provides online access to the information of the manual. Chapter Running GAP gives technical advice for running GAP. Chapter The Programming Language introduces the GAP language, while the next chapters deal with the environment provided by GAP for the user. These are followed by the main bulk of chapters which is devoted to various mathematical structures that GAP can handle.
Pages are numbered consecutively in each of the four manuals.
GAP 4 manual