Burrows–Wheeler transform

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Name Burrows–Wheeler transform
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Released 1994

Burrows–Wheeler transform is an algorithm used as part of some compressed data formats, such as bzip2. By itself it does not compress data, but it rearranges the data to make it easier to compress.

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