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.

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α–β A* B* Backtracking Beam Bellman–Ford Best-first Bidirectional Borůvka Branch & bound BFS British Museum D* DFS Dijkstra Edmonds Floyd–Warshall Fringe search Hill climbing IDA* Iterative deepening Johnson Jump point Kruskal Lexicographic BFS LPA* Prim SMA*
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Newell, Shaw, and Simon[1] 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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Original text by This article incorporates public domain material from the NIST document: Black, Paul E. "British Museum technique". Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures..

References

Newell, A.; Shaw, J. C.; Simon, H. A. (1958). "Elements of a Theory of Human Problem Solving". Psychological Review. American Psychological Association. 65 (3): 151–166. doi:10.1037/h0048495.

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