GREEDY ALGORITHM

  

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GREEDY ALGORITHM

Specialty Definition: GREEDY ALGORITHM

DomainDefinition

Math

An algorithm that always takes the best immediate, or local, solution while finding an answer. Greedy algorithms find the overall, or globally, optimal solution for some optimization problems, but may find less-than-optimal solutions for some instances of other problems. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: GREEDY ALGORITHM

Specialty definitions using "GREEDY ALGORITHM": fractional knapsack problem. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GREEDY ALGORITHM

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

greedy algorithm

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: GREEDY ALGORITHM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-g-h-i-l-m-o-r-r-t-y"

-4 letters: gradiometer, remortgaged.

-5 letters: erythremia, geothermal, hereditary, heterogamy, hydrometer, hygrometer, lighterage, loggerhead, meliorated, moderately, radiometer, radiometry, remortgage, retailored.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GREEDY ALGORITHM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 52 45 45 44 59      41 4C 47 4F 52 49 54 48 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01010010 01000101 01000101 01000100 01011001 00100000 01000001 01001100 01000111 01001111 01010010 01001001 01010100 01001000 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#82 &#69 &#69 &#68 &#89 &#32 &#65 &#76 &#71 &#79 &#82 &#73 &#84 &#72 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0052 0045 0045 0044 0059      0041 004C 0047 004F 0052 0049 0054 0048 004D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4152393938592354641495243544247

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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