Football Pools--A Game for Mathematicians

DOI10.2307/2974552MaRDI QIDQ4870014zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Patric R. J. Östergård, Heikki O. Hämäläinen, Iiro Honkala, Simon Litsyn

Publication date 9 May 1996

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2974552

zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial objectserror-correcting codefootball poolsternary Golay code

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Game theory (91A99) Applications of the theory of convex sets and geometry of numbers (covering radius, etc.) to coding theory (94B75)

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