underflow
Below zero wraparound
Underflow is a computing term for when a calculation produces a number too small for the system to represent—essentially rounding to zero when the result should be a tiny positive or negative value.
The opposite of overflow, which occurs when numbers exceed the maximum.
Underflow can cause subtle bugs: The simulation failed because underflow made the denominator zero.
Protective intermediate space
- stackItems piled vertically
- integerNumber lacking fractions
- arithmeticMathematics of basic operations
- errorFault in communication
exception · memory · pointer · bit · byte · binary · floating-point · register
Deficient supply of necessities
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
- deficiencyLack of something needed
- shortfallFailure to reach quota
- deficitAmount still owed
lack · dearth · paucity · inadequacy · gap · depletion · want · privation
River water's measured movement
- groundwaterWater in underground rock
- aquiferGroundwater-bearing geological formation
- interflowReciprocal movement between
- seepageSlow fluid escape
infiltration · percolation · subsurface · watershed · hydraulics · transmissivity · porosity · fluvial
buffer
Protective intermediate space
- stackItems piled vertically
- integerNumber lacking fractions
- arithmeticMathematics of basic operations
error · exception · memory · pointer · bit · byte · binary · floating-point · register · truncation
shortage
Deficient supply of necessities
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
- deficiencyLack of something needed
- shortfallFailure to reach quota
deficit · lack · dearth · paucity · inadequacy · gap · depletion · want · privation · meagerness
streamflow
River water's measured movement
- groundwaterWater in underground rock
- aquiferGroundwater-bearing geological formation
- interflowReciprocal movement between
seepage · infiltration · percolation · subsurface · watershed · hydraulics · transmissivity · porosity · fluvial · riparian
drain
Channel for wastewater
tank · reservoir · valve · basin · channel · discharge · spillway · leakage · seepage · emptying
- edge casesedge cases, special case, off-by-one, empty set, outlier
- numerical errorsrounding error, roundoff, round-off, relative error
- Over/Under Wordsabove, below, beneath, overhead, underneath
- calculation errorsmiscalculation, math error, counting error, miscount, miscounting
- glitchesglitch, bug, error, malfunction, flaw
- flow typeslaminar, turbulent, steady, continuous, intermittent