[#P3770] Smallest perfect hash family for twelve keys and four colors
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Problem. Determine the minimum size of a family \(\mathcal H\) of functions \(h:\{1,\ldots,12\}\to\{1,2,3,4\}\) such that every four-element key set is mapped bijectively by at least one function in \(\mathcal H\).
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- A Hadamard matrix of order 668combinatorial designs
- Existence of a Costas array of order 32combinatorial designs
- Three mutually orthogonal Latin squares of order tenconstraint programming
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“Smallest perfect hash family for twelve keys and four colors.” TheoremDB. P3770. Problem statement; statement identity tdbc1:78b49b3f80048b6155da6c36278f2962ac6fe51a3ca0efac9ec5197525a165a1; statement text SHA-256 87b0c5f3b05f3870a26932465d905c6933fcb7dcf54f689f310af472eec015f6. https://theoremdb.org/statement/?ref=P3770
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