Heuristics is a search performed through analytical reasoning.
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Heuristics
//hjuˈɹɪstɪks//
Synonyms for "heuristics" (39 found)
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15 translations across 15 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 啟發法 /启发法 noun (Translations)
Czech
1 entries- heuristika noun (Translations)
Esperanto
1 entries- heŭristiko noun (Translations)
Finnish
1 entries- heuristiikka noun (Translations)
French
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German
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Hungarian
1 entries- heurisztika noun (Translations)
Italian
1 entries- euristica noun (Translations)
Polish
1 entries- heurystyka noun (Translations)
Portuguese
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Russian
1 entries- эври́стика noun (Translations)
Slovak
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Spanish
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Swedish
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Thai
1 entries- วิทยาการศึกษาสำนึก noun (Translations)
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Tom is interested in the heuristics people use to come to quick decisions.
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Problem solving based on experience of working with other problems which share some characteristics of the current problem, but for which no algorithm is known. Good heuristics can reduce the time needed to solve problems by recognizing which possible approaches are unlikely to be successful. George Polya brought the notion of heuristics to a wide audience through his book How To Solve It. The second edition was published in 1957 and is still in print half a century later.
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