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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>banana problem</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="bamf.html" title="bamf"/><link rel="next" href="bandwidth.html" title="bandwidth"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">banana problem</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bamf.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bandwidth.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="banana-problem"/><dt xmlns="" id="banana-problem"><b>banana problem</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the story of the little girl who said “<span class="quote">I know how to
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spell ‘banana’, but I don't know when to stop</span>”]. Not
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knowing where or when to bring a production to a close (compare
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<a href="../F/fencepost-error.html"><i class="glossterm">fencepost error</i></a>). One may say <span class="firstterm">there is a banana problem</span> of an algorithm with
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poorly defined or incorrect termination conditions, or in discussing the
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evolution of a design that may be succumbing to featuritis (see also
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<a href="../C/creeping-elegance.html"><i class="glossterm">creeping elegance</i></a>,
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<a href="../C/creeping-featuritis.html"><i class="glossterm">creeping featuritis</i></a>).
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See item 176 under <a href="../H/HAKMEM.html"><i class="glossterm">HAKMEM</i></a>,
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which describes a banana problem in a
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<a href="../D/Dissociated-Press.html"><i class="glossterm">Dissociated Press</i></a> implementation.
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Also, see <a href="../O/one-banana-problem.html"><i class="glossterm">one-banana problem</i></a>
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for a superficially similar but unrelated usage.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bamf.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bandwidth.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bamf </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bandwidth</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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