May 15, 2003

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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:39 AM

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