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compuational methods

2.2 - computational methods

Questiondefinitionexamplesadvantagesdisadvantages
data mining the process of analysing a large set of data people debugging video games advertisements from companies statistics are useful to inform future plans
preformance modelling the process of simulating a problem before attempting to solve it testing the strength of a server before release
pipelining the process of the multiple parts of the solution to be ran parallelly the CPU
visualisation the process of not using purely text to represent a problem almost all solutions require visualisation in some way (designing video games, algorithms etc)
heuristics the process of using a "best-guess" solution based on previous data A* algorithm Crossing roads
back-tracking the process of developming a solution incrimentally and reverting back to a previous "partly solved" solution when needed logic puzzles mazes
divide and conquer the process of splitting the problem into multiple parts such that the solution is the merging of the parts. binary search merge sort quick sort
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