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Exhaustive searches like this are a type of brute force solution. The term brute force is obviously applicable when referring to an activity that requires literal force, such as chopping down a tree with an ax. However, it is also used to refer to any solution that doesn't require an intellectually sophisticated method. For example, if you have to address ten envelopes, it can be faster to handwrite them than to print them.

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