A formula for the number of Latin squares
β Scribed by Jia-yu Shao; Wan-di Wei
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 186 KB
- Volume
- 110
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-365X
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