Poor Philomuse! you're disinherited.

I've had enough of this arty-farty modern sculpture!

The becking waiter, that with wreathed smiles, wont to spread for Samuel and Bozzy their supper of the gods, has long since pocketed his last sixpence; and vanished, sixpence and all, like a ghost at cock-crowing.

The object of this note is to observe that it is possible to calculate the order of an element A of G= mathit GL(d,q) on average using O(d³ mathsf logq) field operations, assuming that qⁱ-1 has been factorised for i<d.