ON SOME MDS-CODES OVER ARBITRARY ALPHABET

Let $q=p^{e1}_1{\cdots}p^{em}_m$ be the product of distinct prime elements. In this short paper, we show that the largest value of M such that there exists an ($n$, M, $n-1$) $q$-ary code is $q^2$ if $n-1{\leq}p^{ei}_i$ for all $i$.