V. K. Bhargava recently made the following suggestion. Let

he a cyclic code of dimension

, and block length

, where

is a prime. It is sometimes possible to find a code equivalent to

which has a generator matrix of the form
![[I|A_{1}| \\cdots |A_{t-1}]](/images/tex/3955.gif)
where each

is a

circulant matrix. Such a decomposition is useful in encoding and decoding and also in finding the weight distribution of

. Some general theory as to