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A heuristic method.
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The art of applying heuristic methods.
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A technique designed for solving a problem when classic methods are too slow or fail to find any exact solution.
adjective
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(of an approach to problem solving, learning, or discovery) That employs a practical method not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect; not following or derived from any theory.
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(of a method or algorithm) That solves a problem more quickly but is not certain to arrive at an optimal solution.
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(of an argument) That reasons from the value of a method or principle that has been shown by experimental investigation to be a useful aid in learning, discovery and problem-solving.
Examples of heuristic in a Sentence
And the aim is heuristic, though often enough the search ends in no overt positive conclusion.
The teaching, which follows the so-called " Heuristic " method, and the equipment of schools of every description, are admirable.
This symposium aims at addressing such issues from an explicitly theoretical rather than heuristic perspective.
Doubtless what we have is in the main a reflex of the heuristic character of Aristotle's own work as pioneer.
The feeling was that evolutionary algorithms should be better able to cope with noise than heuristic state merging methods.
It is a heuristic process liable to failure, and its application by a nation of talkers even to physics where non-expert opinion is worthless somewhat discredited it.
By default, cp detects holes in input source files via a crude heuristic and makes the corresponding output file sparse as well.
Includes recipient whitelisting so selected recipients can bypass heuristic antispam testing and real-time blacklists NEW!
The red squares denote the mean heuristic for the final heuristics of this run Figure 2.
The Western Buddhist milieu may also require a heuristic recovery of the Vinaya tradition of Buddhist monastic regulation.
This approach is used to guide a simple heuristic constraint satisfaction algorithm eliminating the need to explicitly define a search objective.