= Lempel–Ziv complexity
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Lempel–Ziv complexity, also known as Lempel-Ziv (LZ) complexity, is a measure of the complexity of a string (or sequence) based on the concepts introduced by the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithms. It serves as an indication of the amount of information or the structure present in a sequence. The Lempel-Ziv complexity of a string is defined using the notion of "factors," which are contiguous substrings that the original string can be broken down into.
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