Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:
@jsonstein Your toot has been received and minimally appreciated. Have you considered 'blow up'? 1. [scientific computation] To become unstable. Suggests that the computation is diverging so rapidly that it will soon overflow or at least go nonlinear.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/blow-up.html