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In this short note, we describe one of the long-standing open problems in algebraic coding theory, i.e., whether there exists a binary self-dual [72,36,16] code.
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Kim, JL. (2009). A Prize Problem in Coding Theory. In: Sala, M., Sakata, S., Mora, T., Traverso, C., Perret, L. (eds) Gröbner Bases, Coding, and Cryptography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-93806-4_23
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