The Code of the Symmetric Net with m = 4 and μ = 2

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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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The Code of the Symmetric Net with m = 4 and μ = 2

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