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.

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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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