On average, random search and hill descending do just as well as hill climbing in finding peaks of high fitness.

Onstage, the band finds peaks and valleys in each one, merging brute force with an exploratory, almost psychedelic element.

Analysis of recorded speech samples found peaks in acoustic energy that mirrored the distances between notes in the twelve-tone scale.

He found other strange peaks in home runs and, he noticed, they came just after expansion years - when the number of teams increased.

Here you'll find an astonishing deep valley and lofty peaks including the 11,000ft Mount Perdido.

What lay behind, he could not even guess, but experience suggested that he would find other ridges and frowning peaks before him.

The song then found new peaks at number forty-six and twenty-eight on the chart, respectively.

Throughout January and February 2009, the song moved up, finding new peaks for four consecutive weeks.

Hill climbing is, on average, no better than random search in finding high peaks, when averaged over all possible fitness landscapes.

If a species was divided into small populations, some could find higher peaks.