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• ill-behaved adj. 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties.
  2. Software that bypasses the defined OS interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software....
• The trouble with a kitten is that When it grows up, it's always a cat -- Odgen Nash (1902-1971)
• The trouble with a kitten is that When it grows up, it's always a cat -- Ogden Nash.
• box n. 1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box' where foo is some functional qualifier, like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `Unix box', `MS-DOS box', etc.
  ) "We preprocess the data on Unix boxes before handing it up to the mainframe....
• box: n. 1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box' where foo is some functional qualifier, like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `UNIX box', `MS-DOS box', etc.
  ) "We preprocess the data on UNIX boxes before handing it up to the mainframe....
• ill-behaved: adj. 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties.
  2. Software that bypasses the defined {OS} interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software....
• bomb 1. v. General synonym for crash (sense 1) except that it is not used as a nou
  esp. used of software or OS failures. "Don't run Empire with less than 32K stack, it'll bomb....
• bomb: 1. v. General synonym for {crash} (sense 1) except that it is not used as a nou
  esp. used of software or OS failures. "Don't run Empire with less than 32K stack, it'll bomb....