Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

british museum algorithm

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English

Syllables: british -mu-se-um al-go-rithm
IPA

37

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A search procedure which involves generating and checking all possible scenarios.

Etymology

Named by Newell, Shaw, and Simon in allusion to the inefficient idea of placing monkeys in front of typewriters in order to reproduce all the books in the British Museum.

Inflected Forms

the British Museum algorithm (canonical)

Questions

What does british museum algorithm mean?: A search procedure which involves generating and checking all possible scenarios.
Where does british museum algorithm come from?: Named by Newell, Shaw, and Simon in allusion to the inefficient idea of placing monkeys in front of typewriters in order to reproduce all the books in the British Museum.

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