British Museum algorithm
The British Museum algorithm is a general approach to finding a solution by checking all possibilities one by one, beginning with the smallest. The term refers to a conceptual, not a practical, technique where the number of possibilities is enormous. Newell, Shaw, and Simon called this procedure the British Museum algorithm "... since it seemed to them as sensible as placing monkeys in front of typewriters in order to reproduce all the books in the British Museum."
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- enThe British Museum algorithm is a general approach to finding a solution by checking all possibilities one by one, beginning with the smallest. The term refers to a conceptual, not a practical, technique where the number of possibilities is enormous. Newell, Shaw, and Simon called this procedure the British Museum algorithm "... since it seemed to them as sensible as placing monkeys in front of typewriters in order to reproduce all the books in the British Museum."
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- enThe British Museum algorithm is a general approach to finding a solution by checking all possibilities one by one, beginning with the smallest. The term refers to a conceptual, not a practical, technique where the number of possibilities is enormous. Newell, Shaw, and Simon called this procedure the British Museum algorithm "... since it seemed to them as sensible as placing monkeys in front of typewriters in order to reproduce all the books in the British Museum."
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- Breadth-first search
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- Algorithme du British Museum
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- Алгоритм Британского музея
- 大英博物館算法
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