Heuristic vs Hermeneutic - What's the difference?
heuristic | hermeneutic |
Relating to general strategies or methods for solving problems.
(computing, of a method or algorithm) that solves a problem more quickly but is not certain to arrive at an optimal solution.
* {{quote-book, year=2002, author=Te Chiang Hu, Man-tak Shing, title=Combinatorial Algorithms
, passage=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 a long time.}}
As adjectives the difference between heuristic and hermeneutic
is that heuristic is relating to general strategies or methods for solving problems while hermeneutic is that explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates.As a noun heuristic
is a heuristic method.heuristic
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(wikipedia heuristic)Adjective
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