mandelbug

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mandelbug - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  mandelbug
  
     <jargon, programming> /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set
     ) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and
     obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even
     nondeterministic.  This term implies that the speaker thinks
     it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug.
  
     See also schroedinbug.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1995-02-08)
  

mandelbug - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.