There is no (107, 173, 101988)-net in base 8, because the generalized Rao bound for nets shows that 8^m ≥ 1 716245 797007 764753 103430 125726 265536 760007 194770 272973 123718 405227 307130 432791 688425 703099 679594 212432 048522 708206 453714 783705 201941 359401 104886 183399 631667 > 8¹⁷³