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I think you might be in the minority in this opinion. Many algorithms have pathological cases but are still considered algorithms
by zaphar 8y ago
I think you might be in the minority in this opinion. Many algorithms have pathological cases but are still considered algorithms
- another-cuppa 8y agoMinority? This is directly from Knuth.
- bstamour 8y agoKnuth defines effectiveness as: "... all of the operations to be performed in the algorithm must be sufficiently basic that they can in principle be done exactly and in a finite length of time by a man using paper and pencil." K-means and other heuristic algorithms fit that description.