concrete examples of heuristics

Question

What are concrete examples (e.g. Alpha-beta pruning, example: tic-tac-toe and how is it applicable there) of heuristics. I already saw an answered question about what heuristics is but I still don't get the thing where it uses estimation. Can you give me a concrete example of a heuristic and how it works?

Answer 1

In the computer science world, a heuristic is a procedure developed for solving a problem more quickly, when classic methods are too slow, or for finding an approximate solution when classic methods fail to find any exact solution.

This is achieved by trading optimality, completeness, accuracy, or exactness for speed.

Here you can refer to the link which contains some few basic examples where a heuristic algorithm can be used: https://www.101computing.net/heuristic-approaches-to-problem-solving/

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