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We study some geometric properties of helices of proper order 4 on a complex projective space which are of type 2 in the sense of submanifolds in a Euclidean space through the first standard embedding and which are generated by some Killing vector fields.

Let be a field and let A be a finite-dimensional -algebra. We define the length of a finite generating set of this algebra as the smallest number k such that words of the length not greater than k generate A as a vector space, and the length of the algebra is the maximum of lengths of its generating sets. In this paper we study the connection between the length of an algebra and the lengths of its subalgebras. It turns out that the length of an algebra can be smaller than the length of its subalgebra. To investigate, how different the length of an algebra and the length of its subalgebra can be, we evaluate the difference and the ratio of the lengths of an algebra and its subalgebra for several representative families of algebras. Also we give examples of length computation of two and three block upper triangular matrix algebras.