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ISRN Algebra
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 367129, 19 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/367129
Research Article
On the Existence of Difference Sets with and Is a Square
Division of Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Livingstone College, Salisbury, NC 28144, USA
Received 20 January 2012; Accepted 8 February 2012
Academic Editors: A. V. Kelarev, D. Kressner, H. You, and A. Zimmermann
Copyright © 2012 Adegoke Solomon Osifodunrin. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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