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This edit changed the proposed outer automorphism from (a,b) ↦ (a,bb) to a much more complicated expression. I just checked that (a,b) ↦ (a,bb) is an inner automorphism, so was wrong. However, the proposed automorphism is explicitly written as an inner automorphism, so is also wrong. Recently an IP misunderstood conjugation as multiplication, but (a,b) ↦ (a,babab^2abababab^2) does not define an automorphism of the group, so is also wrong. An outer automorphism is given by (a,b) ↦ (a,bbabababababbababababa), found by a simple search using the GAP computer algebra system. JackSchmidt (talk) 17:42, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why is the name “Tits group” censored at [1]? --84.62.192.52 (talk) 09:09, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's really funny, and I hope you are not trolling! Webcrawlers tend to think that the page is pornographic in nature as it has "Tits" in its title (which is pretty obvious). Dyaa (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:59, 21 December 2010 (UTC).[reply]

This might be a good April Fool's Day "Did You Know?" entry, eg "Did you know... that researchers discovered a way of rigorously characterising tits in 1972?" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.26.13.2 (talk) 00:22, 17 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]