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Old 08-11-2006, 02:17 AM
MidGe MidGe is offline
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Default Re: An Application of the No Free Lunch Theorem

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Doesn't that just mean "stay in one place" can be the optimal search algorithm? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Another way of saying it, is that for every possible search algorithm you can construct a terrain that is -EV. Therefore you can't design an algorithm better than any other.
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