(algorithmic technique)
Definition: An algorithm that finds a solution by trying every possibility.
See also brute force, search.
Author: BB
All the Needles in a Haystack: Can Exhaustive Search Overcome Combinatorial Chaos?
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Bob Bockholt, "exhaustive search", from
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data
Structures, Paul E. Black, ed.,
NIST.
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