OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 7685

heuristic

/hjuˈɹɪstɪk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
heurístico
That provides a useful, but not optimal, solution to a problem. Such algorithms are typically employed either because the only known algorithms that provide optimal solutions use too much time or resources, or else because there is no known algorithm that provides an optimal solution.
If a heuristic algorithm works for most of the input data or its maximum percentage error is tolerable, we may prefer the heuristic algorithm to an optimum algorithm that requires…