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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>
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Subject: [lojban] garbage, in sense computing
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Several days ago I was investigating a malfunction in one of my programs. A=
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subroutine was returning numbers close to 1e-317 for the control points of =
a=20
B=C3=A9zier spline. That number is garbage. (The correct value is about 200=
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The program erroneously calculated the minimum as 50.6 or so and put it in =
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array of four numbers which it returned to another routine. The routine use=
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the first and last to calculate an overall minimum and an overall maximum,=
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ignoring the middle two. The middle two are festi.

What's the Lojban for "garbage", in the computing sense?

Pierre
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