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Re: what s the meaning of "heuristic"

From: Telemachus <telemachus_at_ulysseswillreturn.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:32:44 -0000
Message-ID: <hTBea.3985$pK2.4305@news.indigo.ie>


From dictionary.com

  1.. Of or relating to a usually speculative formulation serving as a guide in the investigation or solution of a problem: "The historian discovers the past by the judicious use of such a heuristic device as the 'ideal type'" (Karl J. Weintraub).
  2.. Of or constituting an educational method in which learning takes place through discoveries that result from investigations made by the student.   3.. Computer Science. Relating to or using a problem-solving technique in which the most appropriate solution of several found by alternative methods is selected at successive stages of a program for use in the next step of the program.
Academic trial and error !
<zhangguoping_at_boco.com.cn> wrote in message news:b5e5tn$2uu2$1_at_mail.cn99.com...
> the 'heuristic' is often oracle tunnelling.
> what s meaning
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Received on Fri Mar 21 2003 - 04:32:44 CST

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