English Explanatory Dictionary

British Museum algorithm

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A search procedure which involves generating and checking all possible scenarios.

Word forms

British Museum algorithm the British Museum algorithm

Etymology

Named by Newell, Shaw, and Simon in allusion to the inefficient idea of placing monkeys in front of typewriters in order to reproduce all the books in the British Museum.

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