optimal

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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A value is optimal if it is the best by some measure or optmisation criterion.

Used in Chap. 4: pages 41, 52, 54, 56; Chap. 7: page 107; Chap. 8: page 116; Chap. 9: pages 132, 136, 140; Chap. 10: page 153; Chap. 19: page 326

Also known as optimality