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Design theory is the subfield of combinatorics concerning the existence and construction of highly symmetric arrangements. Finite projective planes, latin squares, and Steiner triple systems are examples of designs.

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Self-complementary block designs

For what $n$ does there exist a self-complementary $(2n,4n-2,2n-1,n,n-1)$ balanced incomplete block design? (All I know is that a self-complementary design with these parameters does exist for all $ …
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For what odd integers $n \geq 3$ does there exist a self-complementary $(2n,8n−4,4n−2,n,2n−2)$ balanced incomplete block design? By "self-complementary" I mean that the complement of each block is a …
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Scrambling a “Connections” grid

Given a 4-by-4 array of distinct words, is it possible to scramble the array in four different ways in such a fashion that each possible word-pair appears adjacently in one of the five arrays (the ori …
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