Talk:State space search
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[edit] Optimal?
From the article:
- In game-playing, the minimax algorithm is the optimal form of such heuristic search.
Uh, really? Optimal in what sense? It's true that if you explore the entire tree, then minimax will find the best strategy playing against a perfect opponent. But that's just correctness, not optimality. When there are heuristics involved (as in this article), I don't see how there can be any formal concept of optimal, and I doubt that minimax meets even informal ones. Brighterorange 18:10, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
