Burrows-Wheeler transform

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Etymology

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Invented by Michael Burrows and David Wheeler in 1994.

Noun

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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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