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Extractions: Optimization is a general term for extremum searching (maximizing or minimizing) of particular properties. In mathematics , it is usually the value of a particular function . Optimization is also termed Operations research when applied to practical economic problems. See optimization (mathematics) In computer science optimization is the process of improving a system in certain ways such as execution speed memory requirements and bandwidth . Despite its name, optimization does not necessarily mean finding the optimum solution to a problem . Often this is not possible, and heuristic algorithms must be used instead. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page. Views Personal tools Navigation Search Toolbox Other languages Polski This page was last modified 00:59, 4 Jun 2004.
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Extractions: www.StudentsHelpingStudents.com Over one billion dollars is given out in the form of scholarships each year to undergraduate students. As a parent, you should encourage your college-bound kids to apply for as many scholarships as humanly possible to limit the amount of loans that you and they will have to take out. Scholarships are the best kind of financial aid you can get because you don't need to pay them back. One of the best places online to search for scholarships is FastWeb (www.fastweb.com). It's a free service and students can search based on their background and profile and find scholarships best suited for them. You should encourage them to go after any scholarship that they even remotely qualify for, regardless of how small the amount. Every little bit helps, and often, there's less competition for smaller scholarships. Many companies offer to find scholarships for you and your children for a fee and you have to be very careful with these. Some of these are not legitimate, and many of them will take your money with little in return-if you're not careful. You can ask your child's guidance counselor for suggestions, but if you want to go looking on your own, here a few warning signs that a scholarship or a scholarship search service may not be completely legitimate:
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