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A general product construction for error correcting codes. (English) Zbl 0546.94015
In this paper the author presents a generalized product construction for binary error correcting codes in the Hamming-metric and then the author uses it to establish lower bounds on the number of nonisomorphic and nonequivalent perfect single error correcting codes, e.g. the number of nonequivalent perfect single error correcting codes of length n is at least $$2^{2^{cn}}$$, for some constant $$c<1$$.
Reviewer: K.Lindström

##### MSC:
 94B25 Combinatorial codes 05B40 Combinatorial aspects of packing and covering
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