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An upper bound on the size of the snake-in-the-box (English)
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26 March 1998
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The length of the longest snake (circuit) in the graph of the \(n\)-dimensional cube was known to be between \(c2^n\) and \(2^{n-1}(1-O(1/n))\). The upper bound is here improved to \(2^{n-1}(1-1/(89\sqrt n)+O(1/n))\). The problem has applications in coding theory.
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longest snake in the cube
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