underflowing
underflowing is the present participle and gerund of underflow.
Meaning of underflow
Verb
underflow (third-person singular simple present underflows, present participle underflowing, simple past and past participle underflowed)
- To trigger the condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest non-zero value that can be physically stored.
- To trigger the error condition resulting from attempting to retrieve a value from an empty stack.
- Upon an attempt to pop an empty stack, the stack underflows […]2022, Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Introduction to Algorithms, fourth edition, page 255
Questions about underflowing
- What is underflowing the present participle and gerund of?
- Underflowing is the present participle and gerund of underflow.
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