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Burrows-Wheeler transform (BWT)
Rearrange a string so repeated substrings lead to repeated characters in the rearranged string, which is easier to compress. Knowing which character was last in the original string, the original can be reconstructed from the rearranged string.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Computer science
- Category: Algorithms & data structures
- Government Agency: NIST
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