Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : ahhaha's ahs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: M. Frank Greiffenstein who wrote (575)	12/10/2000 7:59:37 PM
From: Ahda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24758

These definitions are not meant to counter your definition but to prove my own theory that our society has one heck of a lot of paper service. With respect I humbly state the meanings, in programming the definitions change also. Heuristic algorithmic Main Entry: 1heu·ris·tic Pronunciation: hyu-'ris-tik Function: adjective Etymology: German heuristisch, from New Latin heuristicus, from Greek heuriskein to discover; akin to Old Irish fo-fúair he found Date: 1821 : involving or serving as an aid to learning, discovery, or problem-solving by experimental and especially trial-and-error methods <heuristic techniques> <a heuristic assumption>; also : of or relating to exploratory problem-solving techniques that utilize self-educating techniques (as the evaluation of feedback) to improve performance <a heuristic computer program> - heu·ris·ti·cal·ly /-ti-k(&-)lE/ adverb Main Entry: al·go·rithm Pronunciation: 'al-g&-"ri-[th]&m Function: noun Etymology: alteration of Middle English algorisme, from Old French & Medieval Latin; Old French, from Medieval Latin algorismus, from Arabic al-khuwArizmi, from al-KhwArizmI fl A.D. 825 Arabian mathematician Date: circa 1894 : a procedure for solving a mathematical problem (as of finding the greatest common divisor) in a finite number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation; broadly : a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem or accomplishing some end especially by a computer