The DESIGN Package for GAP
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The DESIGN package is for constructing, classifying, partitioning,
and studying block designs.

The DESIGN package is Copyright (C) Leonard H. Soicher 2003--2019.  

DESIGN is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version. For details, see 
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.

Please reference your use of the DESIGN package in a published work
as follows:

L.H. Soicher, The DESIGN package for GAP, Version 1.7, 2019,
<https://gap-packages.github.io/design>.

Any comments or bug reports should go to <L.H.Soicher@qmul.ac.uk>.

Installing the DESIGN Package
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The DESIGN package is included in the standard GAP distribution. You
only need to download and install DESIGN if you need to install
the package locally or are installing an upgrade of DESIGN to an
existing installation of GAP (see the main GAP reference section
"ref:Installing a GAP Package").  If you do need to download DESIGN,
you can find archive files for the package in various formats at
<https://www.gap-system.org/Packages/design.html>, and then your archive
file of choice should be downloaded and unpacked in the `pkg' subdirectory
of an appropriate GAP root directory (see the main GAP reference section
"ref:GAP Root Directories").

The DESIGN package is written entirely in GAP code, and requires
no further installation.  However, the DESIGN package has complete
functionality only in an environment in which the GRAPE package is
fully installed. 

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Leonard Soicher,
Queen Mary University of London,
March 2019