Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

greedy property

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English

Syllables: greedy prop-er-ty
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The property of being globally solvable optimally by making optimal decisions locally.

Example Sentences

"It has the greedy property (difficult to prove in time-critical contest environment!). If we make a choice that seems like the best at the moment and proceed to solve the remaining subproblem, we reach the optimal solution. We will never have to reconsider our previous choices."
"Developing efficient algorithms for computing shortest paths in a time varying spatial network is challenging because these journeys do not always display greedy property or optimal substructure, making techniques like dynamic programming inapplicable."

Questions

What does greedy property mean?: The property of being globally solvable optimally by making optimal decisions locally.

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