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Computing coset leaders and leader codewords of binary codes
In this paper we use the Gr\"obner representation of a binary linear code
to give efficient algorithms for computing the whole set of coset
leaders, denoted by and the set of leader codewords,
denoted by . The first algorithm could be adapted to
provide not only the Newton and the covering radius of but also to
determine the coset leader weight distribution. Moreover, providing the set of
leader codewords we have a test-set for decoding by a gradient-like decoding
algorithm. Another contribution of this article is the relation stablished
between zero neighbours and leader codewords
Could and Should America Have Made an Ottoman Republic in 1919?
Numerous Americans, perhaps especially American lawyers, have since the 1780s presumed to tell other peoples how to govern themselves. In 2006, that persistent impulse was once again echoed in an address to the American Bar Association by a Justice of the Supreme Court. The purpose of this essay is to question the wisdom of this evangelical ambition, especially when the form of instruction includes military force. It is draws on Spreading America\u27s Word (2005) and directs attention to the hopes of American Protestant Zionists to make a democratic republic in Ottoman Palestine. It suggests that chances were better in 1919 than they are in 2008, but were none to good at that time. It rejects the appeal of the militant neo-conservatives who expressed their hopes and expectations in The Project for A New American Century, an instrument that should be read and remembered for centuries to come
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