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[lojban] Re: garbage, in sense computing



You've been posting a lot of similar questions on "How to say X in Lojban?"
While I'm not sure how to express this word in particular after translating two IT-related projects to Lojban 
I can say that translating individual words in them is in may cases futile.

The true meaning of words is usually discovered in relations between them after you grasped the whole project.
So after initial preliminary translations I checked the translations again to find that many words had been translated by me incorrectly.
So all in all I had to perform several iterations before the translation got more or less non-self-contradictory.

So for this and other questions I can only recommend first creating short dictionaries with English words and their English definitions.
For texts in other languages you may replace or add columns in those languages.

Then the result would be more useful.

Em quinta-feira, 7 de janeiro de 2016 22:34:06 UTC+3, Pierre Abbat escreveu:
Several days ago I was investigating a malfunction in one of my programs. A
subroutine was returning numbers close to 1e-317 for the control points of a
Bézier spline. That number is garbage. (The correct value is about 200.)

The program erroneously calculated the minimum as 50.6 or so and put it in an
array of four numbers which it returned to another routine. The routine used
the first and last to calculate an overall minimum and an overall maximum,
ignoring the middle two. The middle two are festi.

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

Pierre
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