Burrows-Wheeler transform

English

Etymology

Invented by Michael Burrows and David Wheeler in 1994.

Noun

Burrows-Wheeler transform (plural Burrows-Wheeler transforms)

  1. (computing theory) An algorithm used in data compression that rearranges a character string into runs of similar characters.
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