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Wednesday, May 19, 2004
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} The noble origin of optimization -- Comment()
I have written books about optimization, but I did not think about the origins of the word "optimization" until now. According to the Latin-English dictionary: bonus - good (melior = better / optimus = best ). (The opposite in Latin is malus, peior (peius), pessimus.) There is also this definition for optimus: one of the best, aristocrat, noble. So, I have researched a noble topic without knowing it.
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