From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-08-18T12:11:16+09:00
Subject: Re: [SUMMARY] Pen and Paper (#90)

On Aug 17, 2006, at 8:05 PM, Morton Goldberg wrote:

> Just one last minor point. A Google search on Warnsdorff revealed  
> that it's HC Warnsdorff, not JC

Interesting.  It seems to appear both ways:

   http://www.google.com/search?q=JC+Warnsdorff

> and that its usually referred to as the Warnsdorff rule, not  
> Warnsdorff heuristic. The latter is probably because "rule" is a  
> lot easier to type than "heuristic" :D

I imagine it's because it was stated before computer's existed to  
make heuristic a popular term.  ;)

I choose to call it a heuristic because I defined those in last  
week's summary.  I thought it would be good for the regular readership.

James Edward Gray II