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de bruijn sequence

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English

Syllables
de brui-jn se-quence
IPA
37
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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).

Etymology

Named after the Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn.

Inflected Forms

de Bruijn sequences (plural)

Questions

What does de bruijn sequence mean?
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).
Where does de bruijn sequence come from?
Named after the Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn.

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