An upper approximation to the BIBD (15, 21, 7, 5, 2)

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  • R. G. Stanton
  • R. W. Buskens
چکیده

The design (15,21,7,5,2) is the only BIBD of block size 5 that does not exist. If it did exist, it would provide an exact bicovering, in 21 blocks of size 5, of the pairs from 15 points. However, we show that 22 quintuples are sufficient to provide a bicover of the pairs from 15 points; thus there are only 10 repetitions required in the bicovering.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Australasian J. Combinatorics

دوره 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1990