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6 - The Hexacode

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2024

Robert T. Curtis
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University of Birmingham
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The hexacode is a 3-dimensional, length 6 code over GF4, the Galois field of order 4, whose codewords are readily remembered. Each of these codewords represents 26 codewords of C and thus we obtain the 43.26 = 212 codewords of C. Each element of GF4 = {0, 1, ω, ω̄} is given an odd and an even interpretation as a 4-dimensional column vector (corresponding to the columns of the MOG) or its complement: Thus a hexacodeword [1, 0, 0, 1, ω, ω̄] would have a 4-vector corresponding to 1 in the first column of the MOG, 0 in the second, 0 in the third and so on. All entries must be even or all entries odd and the first five columns may be complemented arbitrarily; the sixth column must then be complemented or not so that in the even interpretation the number of entries in the top row is even, and in the odd interpretation it is odd. Once the reader has memorized the hexacodewords, he or she can work with the MOG without the need of a physical copy of Figure 3.2.

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  • The Hexacode
  • Robert T. Curtis, University of Birmingham
  • Book: The Art of Working with the Mathieu Group M24
  • Online publication: 31 October 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009405683.008
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  • Robert T. Curtis, University of Birmingham
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  • Online publication: 31 October 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009405683.008
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  • The Hexacode
  • Robert T. Curtis, University of Birmingham
  • Book: The Art of Working with the Mathieu Group M24
  • Online publication: 31 October 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009405683.008
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