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See, for example, [HILL] or MacWilliams and Sloane [MS] for a proof of this fact.

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... proper²

In other words, exclude the coefficients equal to 0.

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... examples³

$n=55, k=25, d=6$ in $GF(2)$, but see also section 3 below.

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