Heuristical vs. Heuristic: What's the Difference?

Of or pertaining to heuristics.

Of or relating to a usually speculative formulation serving as a guide in the investigation or solution of a problem

Of or constituting an educational method in which learning takes place through discoveries that result from investigations made by the student.

(Computers) Relating to or using a problem-solving technique in which the most appropriate solution of several found by alternative methods is selected at successive stages of a program for use in the next step of the program.

A heuristic method or process.

Heuristics (used with a sing. verb) The study and application of heuristic methods and processes.

(of an approach to problem solving, learning, or discovery) That employs a practical method not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect; not following or derived from any theory.

That provides a useful, but not optimal, solution to a problem. Such algorithms are typically employed either because the only known algorithms that provide optimal solutions use too much time or resources, or else because there is no known algorithm that provides an optimal solution.

(of an argument) That reasons from the value of a method or principle that has been shown by experimental investigation to be a useful aid in learning, discovery and problem-solving.

A heuristic method.

The art of applying heuristic methods.

(computing) A heuristic algorithm or method.

Serving to promote discovery or learning; - used especially of thories or paradigms which stimulate new ideas for discovering facts in experimental sciences.

Serving to stimulate people to learn and discover on their own, especially by encouraging experimental and trial-and-error methods for solving problems.

Pertaining to or based on trial-and-error and experimental methods of learning and evaluation.

Based on the use of an efficient trial-and error method to search a space of possible solutions to a problem, or to find an acceptable approximate solution, when an exact algorithmic method is unavailable or too time-consuming.

A heuristic method; a specific heuristic procedure.

A theory or approach which serves to promote discovery or learning by encouraging experimentation.

A commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem

Of or relating to or using a general formulation that serves to guide investigation