3.2 Heuristics (Year 9)

3.2 Heuristics (Year 9)

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1 What does heuristic mean?

2 State one advantage to Taz of using a heuristic to spot bad signals instead of checking them himself.

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2 One advantage of using a heuristic to spot bad signals

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3 State one disadvantage of using a heuristic.

• 4 Taz spotted that some bad signals contain the symbol #. Write code to:

  a) traverse the signals list

  b) identify signals that contain “#”

  c) copy these signals to a list called bad_signals.

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