Further results on the classification of MDS codes

A q-ary maximum distance separable (MDS) code C with length n, dimension k over an alphabet A of size q is a set of qk codewords that are elements of An, such that the Hamming distance between two distinct codewords in C is at least n− k+1. Sets of mutually orthogonal Latin squares of orders q ≤ 9, corresponding to two-dimensional q-ary MDS codes, and q-ary one-error-correcting MDS codes for q ≤ 8 have been classified in earlier studies. These results are used here to complete the classification of all 7-ary and 8-ary MDS codes with d ≥ 3 using a computer search.