British Museum algorithm

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English

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Etymology

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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.

Proper noun

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the British Museum algorithm

  1. (computing) A search procedure which involves generating and checking all possible scenarios.