An improved upper bound for the football pool problem for nine matches

Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 204-206

  Di Pasquale, Franco ^a   Östergård, Patric R J ^b  

^a Helsinki University of Technology ^*  (Italy)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Automorphism group; Covering code; Football pool problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038706476     PISSN: 00973165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0097-3165(03)00010-4     Document Type: Article

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