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de bruijn torus

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English

Syllables
de brui-jn -torus
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An array of symbols from an alphabet (often just 0 and 1) that contains every m-by-n matrix exactly once.

Etymology

Named from the de Bruijn sequence, which can be considered a special case for n=1 (one dimension). It is a torus because the edges are considered to wrap around for the purpose of finding matrices.

Inflected Forms

de Bruijn toruses (plural) de Bruijn tori (plural)

Questions

What does de bruijn torus mean?
An array of symbols from an alphabet (often just 0 and 1) that contains every m-by-n matrix exactly once.
Where does de bruijn torus come from?
Named from the de Bruijn sequence, which can be considered a special case for n=1 (one dimension). It is a torus because the edges are considered to wrap around for the purpose of finding matrices.

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