de Bruijn sequence

noun

de Bruijn sequence

noun

Etymology Named after the Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn.

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Mathematics, Sciences A cyclic sequence (of order n on a size-k alphabet A) in which every possible length-n string on A occurs exactly once as a substring (i.e. a contiguous subsequence). Such a sequence is denoted by B(k, n).

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