Heuristic

  • Authors:
  • Nicholas V. Findler

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Encyclopedia of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The ancient Greek word heuriskein means "to find out, to discover." The English adjective heuristic, the more recently coined homonymous noun heuristic (in singular) or the more common heuristics (in plural) came into being via the Latin adjective heuristicus. According to the Random House Dictionary: