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The length function: A revised table

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We give a table with the most current available information for the shortest length of a binary code with codimension m and covering radius r for 2≤m≤24 and 2≤r≤12.

This work was supported in part by NSA Grant MDA 904-91-H-0003.

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G. Cohen S. Litsyn A. Lobstein G. Zémor

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Lobstein, A., Pless, V. (1994). The length function: A revised table. In: Cohen, G., Litsyn, S., Lobstein, A., Zémor, G. (eds) Algebraic Coding. Algebraic Coding 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 781. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57843-9_7

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