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de Bruijn torus

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

Noun

de Bruijn torus (plural de Bruijn toruses or de Bruijn tori)

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

Forms of de Bruijn torus

pluralde Bruijn toruses
pluralde Bruijn tori

Origin of de Bruijn torus

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.

Questions about de Bruijn torus

What does de Bruijn torus mean?
De Bruijn torus means an array of symbols from an alphabet (often just 0 and 1) that contains every m-by-n matrix exactly once.
What part of speech is de Bruijn torus?
De Bruijn torus is a noun.
What is the plural of de Bruijn torus?
The plural of de Bruijn torus is de Bruijn toruses.

Words near de Bruijn torus in the dictionary

  1. de Bruijn indexes
  2. de Bruijn notation
  3. de Bruijn sequence
  4. de Bruijn sequences
  5. de Bruijn tori
  6. de Bruijn torus
  7. de Bruijn toruses
  8. de Bruijn's theorem
  9. de Bruijn-Erdős theorem
  10. de Bruijn-Newman constant
  11. De Bruyn

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