Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hungarian algorithm

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.59 in modern English

Syllables: hun-gar-i-an al-go-rithm
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A combinatorial optimization algorithm that solves the assignment problem in polynomial time.

Etymology

Developed and published in 1955 by Harold Kuhn, who gave it this name because it was based on the work of two Hungarian mathematicians, Dénes Kőnig and Jenő Egerváry (though an earlier independent solution by Carl Gustav Jacobi was later discovered).

Inflected Forms

the Hungarian algorithm (canonical)

Synonyms

Hungarian method Kuhn-Munkres algorithm Munkres assignment algorithm

Questions

What does hungarian algorithm mean?: A combinatorial optimization algorithm that solves the assignment problem in polynomial time.
Where does hungarian algorithm come from?: Developed and published in 1955 by Harold Kuhn, who gave it this name because it was based on the work of two Hungarian mathematicians, Dénes Kőnig and Jenő Egerváry (though an earlier independent solution by Carl Gustav Jacobi was later discovered).

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