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• pretty pictures: n. [scientific computation] The next step up from {numbers}.
  Interesting graphical output from a program that may not have any sensible relationship to the system the program is intended to model....
• umbers: [scientific computation] n. Output of a computation that may not be significant results but at least indicate that the program is running.
  May be used to placate management, grant sponsors, etc....
• umbers n. [scientific computation] Output of a computation that may not be significant results but at least indicate that the program is running.
  May be used to placate management, grant sponsors, etc....
• HAKMEM /hak'mem/ n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972).
  A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere....
• 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....
• 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....
• 0456 Have you ever written a biorhythm program? 0457 .
  .. Did you sell the output? 0458 ... Was the output arbitrarily invented? -- from THE HACKER TEST...
• ocial science number n. // [IBM] A statistic that is content-free, or nearly so.
  A measure derived via methods of questionable validity from data of a dubious and vague nature....
• ocial science number: [IBM] n. A statistic that is {content-free}, or nearly so.
  A measure derived via methods of questionable validity from data of a dubious and vague nature....