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On the Covering Radius of Certain Cyclic Codes

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In this paper we apply divisibility techniques to obtain new results on the covering radius of certain cyclic codes.

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Moreno, O., Castro, F.N. (2003). On the Covering Radius of Certain Cyclic Codes. In: Fossorier, M., Høholdt, T., Poli, A. (eds) Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes. AAECC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2643. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44828-4_15

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