Mandelbug

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mandelbug
/man´del·buhg/
Usage: n.
Derivation: From the Mandelbrot set

See Also: schroedinbug


mandelbug: /man´del·buhg/ n.

[from the Mandelbrot set] A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behavior appear chaotic or even non-deterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.

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Source: mandelbug, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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