de Bruijn sequences

A form of de Bruijn sequence — 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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noun
  1. pluralplural of de Bruijn sequence
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