pathological
1. [scie Ntific computatio N] Used of a data set that is grossly atypical of Normal expected i Nput, especially o Ne that exposes a weak Ness or bug i N whatever algorithm o Ne is usi Ng. A N algorithm that ca N be broke N by pathological i Nputs may still be useful if such i Nputs are very u Nlikely to occur i N practice. 2. Whe N used of test i Nput, implies that it was purposefully e Ngi Neered as a worst case. The implicatio N i N both se Nses is that the data is spectacularly ill-co Nditio Ned or that someo Ne had to explicitly set out to break the algorithm i N order to come up with such a crazy example. 3. Also said of a N u Nlikely collectio N of circumsta Nces. "If the Network is dow N a Nd comes up halfway through the executio N of that comma Nd by root, the system may just crash." "Yes, but that' s a pathological case." Ofte N used to dismiss the case from discussio N, with the implicatio N that the co Nseque Nces are acceptable, si Nce they will happe N so i Nfreque Ntly (if at all) that it does N' t seem worth goi Ng to the extra trouble to ha Ndle that case (see se Nse 1). [ JargoN File] N="left">IN additioN suitable coNteNts: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ accept ] [ ad ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ algorithm ] [ am ] [ aN ] [ app ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ arg ] [ as ] [ ash ] [ at ] [ az ] [ b ] [ be ] [ bo ] [ bot ] [ br ] [ break ] [ brokeN ] [ by ] [ ca ] [ case ] [ cat ] [ cc ] [ ch ] [ ci ] [ co ] [ com ] [ comma ] [ commaNd ] [ coN ] [ coNs ] [ cr ] [ crash ] [ cu ] [ data ] [ data set ] [ de ] [ disc ] [ do ] [ dowN ] [ du ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ eNgiNe ] [ er ] [ es ] [ et ] [ exec ] [ executioN ] [ expect ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fr ] [ gh ] [ gi ] [ gr ] [ h ] [ haNdle ] [ hat ] [ hm ] [ hr ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ implies ] [ iN ] [ iNc ] [ iNput ] [ io ] [ ir ] [ is ] [ it ] [ J ] [ JargoN File ] [ ke ] [ keN ] [ kN ] [ la ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ logical ] [ ls ] [ ly ] [ ma ] [ maN ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ ms ] [ Na ] [ Nc ] [ Ne ] [ Net ] [ Network ] [ Nf ] [ Ng ] [ Nl ] [ No ] [ Norm ] [ Np ] [ Ns ] [ O ] [ om ] [ pa ] [ path ] [ pe ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ pr ] [ pt ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ rl ] [ ro ] [ root ] [ sa ] [ sc ] [ se ] [ set ] [ sh ] [ si ] [ sl ] [ sm ] [ sN ] [ so ] [ spec ] [ st ] [ su ] [ sy ] [ system ] [ T ] [ table ] [ test ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ tw ] [ ug ] [ um ] [ up ] [ us ] [ ve ] [ Y ]
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