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  • I don't think you're providing enough context from the textbook. What context you've provided doesn't say what you say it says... it says that "heuristics aren't going to be useful for unsolvable problems" (duh, unsolvable), and that, for decidable problems, heuristics aren't going to save you from traversing the whole search tree. Commented Feb 15, 2015 at 22:58
  • I've added a link to the book. Yes, the sentence about "unsolvable problems" is straight forward. But, why must you traverse the entire game tree of 8-puzzle if you use heuristics. Couldn't you just stop when you get the state your looking for? Commented Feb 15, 2015 at 23:05