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• onlinear adj. [scientific computation] 1. Behaving in an erratic and unpredictable fashio
  unstable. When used to describe the behavior of a machine or program, it suggests that said machine or program is being forced to run far outside of design specifications....
• blow up: vi. 1. [scientific computation] To become unstable.
  Suggests that the computation is diverging so rapidly that it will soon overflow or at least go {nonlinear}....
• blow up vi. 1. [scientific computation] To become unstable.
  Suggests that the computation is diverging so rapidly that it will soon overflow or at least go nonlinear....
• pathological adj. 1. [scientific computation] Used of a data set that is grossly atypical of normal expected input, esp.
  one that exposes a weakness or bug in whatever algorithm one is using....
• pathological: adj. 1. [scientific computation] Used of a data set that is grossly atypical of normal expected input, esp.
  one that exposes a weakness or bug in whatever algorithm one is using....
• cycle: 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
• cycle 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper described himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
• highly: [scientific computation] adv. The preferred modifier for overstating an understatement.
  As in: `highly nonoptimal', the worst possible way to do something...
• highly adv. [scientific computation] The preferred modifier for overstating an understatement.
  As in: `highly nonoptimal', the worst possible way to do something...