The Code of the Symmetric Net with m = 4 and μ = 2
Ahmad N. Al-Kenani
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DOI: 10.4236/ojdm.2012.21001   PDF    HTML   XML   3,851 Downloads   7,866 Views   Citations

Abstract

In this paper, we investigated the code over GF(2) which is generated by the incidence matrix of the symmetric (2,4) - net D. By computer search, we found that this binary code of D has rank 13 and the minimum distance is 8.

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A. Al-Kenani, "The Code of the Symmetric Net with m = 4 and μ = 2," Open Journal of Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 2 No. 1, 2012, pp. 1-4. doi: 10.4236/ojdm.2012.21001.

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