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Mullin, R.C. (1978). A survey of extremal (r,λ)-systems and certain applications. In: Holton, D.A., Seberry, J. (eds) Combinatorial Mathematics. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 686. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0062522

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