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Day 38: Burrows-Wheeler

Burrows-Wheeler transform is a text transformation used to improve compression in bzip2 to outperform other state-of-the-art techniques [at the time].

The idea is to use advantage of frequently occurring bigrams. he, the, there, her, where are all frequent…

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