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Re: Dum1...?
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Pantxo |
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Re: Dum1...? |
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Mon, 7 Nov 2016 10:53:06 -0800 (PST) |
en4567 wrote
> Good afternoon
>
> Reading messages on the web concerning numrical analyisis for instance, I
> often see dum1 dum2... Is it something particular (ie it has a special
> function) or just something used as an example ?
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> Sorry for this beginnner question...
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> Thanks!
Without more context, I'd say this is a metasyntactic variable [1], a
variable that is meant to mean nothing particular and serves the purpose of
writing an example: other famous examples are "foo" and "bar".
Pantxo
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable
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