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de Bruijn torus

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

An array of symbols from an alphabet (often just 0 and 1) that contains every m-by-n matrix exactly once.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: combinatorics, mathematics, sciences

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Named from the de Bruijn sequence, which can be considered a special case for n=1 (one dimension). It is a torus because the edges are considered to wrap around for the purpose of finding matrices.