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On the nonexistence of close-packed double Hamming-error-correcting codes on q=7 symbols

✍ Scribed by Ronald Alter


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1968
Tongue
English
Weight
297 KB
Volume
2
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-0000

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✦ Synopsis


The diophantine equation 2y t = 7 k + 1 is shown to have no solutions in integers for k > 2. Since this is a necessary condition for the existence of close-packed double Hamming-error-correcting codes on q = 7 symbols, there exist no such codes.