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A family of balanced ternary designs with block size four

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Diane Donovan
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Q. 4067, Australia.
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Abstract

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This paper shows the existence of an infinite family of cyclic balanced ternary designs where the block size is 4, the index 2 and each block contains precisely one repeated element.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1986

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