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Named after the Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
de Bruijn sequence
Today it means: 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). Full definition →