Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dynamic programming

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.04 in modern English

Syllables: dy-nam-ic pro-gram-ming
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An optimization method by which a problem having optimal substructure is recursively broken into simpler subproblems which are solved to produce the globally optimal solution.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The advantage of dynamic programming as a procedure for solving optimization problems is the simplification obtained by decomposition."
"Dynamic programming, developed by Richard Bellmann, is a powerful method for solving optimization problems. It has the attractive feature of breaking up a complex optimization problem into a number of simpler problems."

Etymology

Coined by American mathematician Richard E. Bellman in the 1940s.

Usage

Uncountable

Phrases

Bellman equation

Frequently Paired Words

Bellman equation

Questions

What does dynamic programming mean?: An optimization method by which a problem having optimal substructure is recursively broken into simpler subproblems which are solved to produce the globally optimal solution.
Where does dynamic programming come from?: Coined by American mathematician Richard E. Bellman in the 1940s.

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