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HindawiPublishingCorporation InternationalJournalofCombinatorics Volume2010,ArticleID502989,6pages doi:10.1155/2010/502989 ResearchArticle Bitranslations andSymmetricNets AhmadN.Al-Kenani Department ofMathematics, KingAbdulaziz University,P.O.Box80219,Jeddah21589,SaudiArabia Correspondence shouldbeaddressedtoAhmadN.Al-Kenani, aalkenani10@ Received20November 2009;Accepted 13April2010 Academic Editor:CharlesSemple Copyright q2010AhmadN.Al-Kenani. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction inanymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited. Itisknownthateveryclass-regularsymmetricμ,m-netistactical.Alsoitisknownthatallμ,m- nets with m  2orμ  1aretactical. Inthe work ofAl-Kenani and Mavron 2003,itisproved that every symmetric net with m  3 is tactical if and only if it is class regular. In this paper, weconstruct 2,4-netandshowthatitisclassregularandthereforetactical. Newnecessary and su?cientconditions aregivenforasymmetric nettoadmitanonidentity bitranslation. 1.Introduction At?v,k,λdesignΠisanincidencestructurewithvpoints,kpointsonablock,andany subsetoftpointsiscontainedinexactlyλblocks,wherevk, λ0.Thenumberofblocks isbandthenumberofblocksonapointisr. ThedesignΠisresolvableifitsblockscanbepartitionedintor parallelclasses,suchthat eachparallelclasspartitionsthepointsetofΠ.Blocksinthesameparallelclassareparallel. Clearlyeachparallelclasshasmv/kblocks.Πisa?neresolvable,orsimplya?ne,ifitcan beresolvedsothatanytwononparallelblocksmeetinμpoints,whereμ  k/m  k2/vis constant.A?ne1-designsarealsocallednets.ThedualdesignofadesignΠisdenotedbyΠ. IfΠandΠarebotha?ne,wecallΠasymmetricnet.WeusetheterminologyofJungnickel 1seealso 2.Inthiscase,ifr1,thenvbμm2andkrμm.Thatis,Πisana?ne 1?μm2,μm,μmdesignwhosedualΠ isalsoa?newiththesameparameters.Forshort wecallsuchasymmetricnetaμ,m-net. IfΠisasymmetricnet,weshallr