bent function

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Etymology

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So called because they are as different as possible from all linear functions (the simplest or "straight-line" functions) and from all affine functions (which preserve parallel lines).

Noun

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bent function (plural bent functions)

  1. (combinatorics) A Boolean function whose Walsh transform has constant absolute value.