bent function

English

Etymology

So called because they are as different as possible from all linear functions (the simplest or "straight-line" functions) and from all affine functions (which preserve parallel lines).

Noun

bent function (plural bent functions)

  1. (combinatorics) A Boolean function whose Walsh transform has constant absolute value.
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