Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lin-kernighan heuristic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.41 in modern English

Syllables: lin-k-ernighan heuris-tic
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

4

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

In combinatorial optimization, a heuristic for solving the symmetric travelling salesman problem, involving the swapping of pairs of subtours to make a new tour.

Etymology

Devised by Shen Lin and Brian Kernighan.

Inflected Forms

the Lin-Kernighan heuristic (canonical)

Questions

What does lin-kernighan heuristic mean?: In combinatorial optimization, a heuristic for solving the symmetric travelling salesman problem, involving the swapping of pairs of subtours to make a new tour.
Where does lin-kernighan heuristic come from?: Devised by Shen Lin and Brian Kernighan.

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