A group $G$ is called virtually cyclic if it has a cyclic subgroup of finite index. Why are virtually cyclic groups finitely generated?
Virtually cyclic groups are finitely generated
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group-theory
cyclic-groups
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EDIT Notice that we only used that the subgroup of finite index is finitely generated.
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0is $i=1$ there? :-) – 2012-09-11