No, that's just not true. A heuristic is a procedure that gives no guarantee of a correct answer. An algorithm is a deterministic procedure that does guarantee a correct answer. Heuristics are very useful in making difficult decisions that don't have definite answers, but they are not algorithms.
Thank you for the correction. I'd been using terminology ineffectively. The way I was taught it was:
- An algorithm is a step-by-step process for transforming any valid input into a specific valid output.
- A heuristic is a process that brings you closer to something that looks like an answer, but does not necessarily find the best possible answer.
