A heuristic is a way of trying
(A) To discover something or an idea embedded in a program
(B) To search and measure how far a node in a search tree seems to be  from a goal
(C) To compare two nodes in a search tree to see if one is better than  the other
(D) Only (a), (b) and (c).

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Answer :

(D) Only (a), (b) and (c).

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