  Laszlo Fuchs posed the following problem in 1960, which remains open:
classify the abelian groups occurring as the group of all units in a
commutative ring. In this note, we provide an elementary solution to a simpler,
related problem: find all cardinal numbers occurring as the cardinality of the
group of all units in a commutative ring. As a by-product, we obtain a solution
to Fuchs' problem for the class of finite abelian $p$-groups when $p$ is an odd
prime.
