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superimposed code

(definition)

Definition: A set of bit vectors such that no vector is a subset of a bitwise or of a small number of others.

Author: PEB

More information

Piotr Indyk, Deterministic Superimposed Coding with Applications to Pattern Matching, Proc. 38th FOCS, pages 127-136, IEEE, 1997.


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Paul E. Black, "superimposed code", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 11 July 2005. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/superimposedCode.html