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• parity errors pl.n. Little lapses of attention or (in more severe cases) consciousness, usually brought on by having spent all night and most of the next day hacking.
  I need to go home and crash; I'm starting to get a lot of parity errors....
• check: n. A hardware-detected error condition, most commonly used to refer to actual hardware failures rather than software-induced traps.
  E.g., a `parity check' is the result of a hardware-detected parity error....
• Her mere presence causes parity errors, power fails, and head crashes.
• Always the odd parity...
• parity error.
• fencepost error n. 1. [common] A problem with the discrete equivalent of a boundary condition, often exhibited in programs by iterative loops.
  From the following problem: "If you build a fence 100 feet long with posts 10 feet apart, how many posts do you need?...
• fencepost error: n. 1. A problem with the discrete equivalent of a boundary condition, often exhibited in programs by iterative loops.
  From the following problem: "If you build a fence 100 feet long with posts 10 feet apart, how many posts do you need?...
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