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Burrows-Wheeler transform

noun

Etymology

Invented by Michael Burrows and David Wheeler in 1994.

Definitions

  1. An algorithm used in data compression that rearranges a character string into runs of…

    An algorithm used in data compression that rearranges a character string into runs of similar characters.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Burrows-Wheeler transform. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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