de Bruijn sequence

English

Etymology

Named after the Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn.

Noun

de Bruijn sequence (plural de Bruijn sequences)

1. (mathematics) 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).