MINIMAX

Etymology

Noun

minimax (plural minimaxes)

In decision theory, game theory, etc. a decision rule used for minimizing the maximum possible loss, or maximizing the minimum gain.

Verb

minimax (third-person singular simple present minimaxes, present participle minimaxing, simple past and past participle minimaxed)

To find the optimum play, or decision, to achieve minimizing the maximum loss.

Anagrams

• maximin

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

29 March 2025

THOUGHTLESS

(adjective) without care or thought for others; “the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; ‘Let them eat cake’”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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