A group $G$ is complete if one of the following equivalent conditions holds:
- it has trivial center and every automorphism is inner,
- the natural map from $G$ to its inner automorphism group is an isomorphism,
- whenever it is embedded as a normal subgroup of a larger group, it is a direct factor.
For $n \ne 2, 6$, the symmetric group $S_n$ is complete.
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