meaning of fudge
1. A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.
2. To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.
3. To foist; to interpolate.
4. A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole.
5. fudge 1. To perform in an incomplete but marginally acceptable way, particularly with respect to the writing of a program. "I didnt feel like going through that pain and suffering, so I fudged it - Ill fix it later. " 2. The resulting code. [Jargon File] fudge factor A value or parameter that is varied in an ad hoc way to produce the desired result. The terms "tolerance" and slop are also used, though these usually indicate a one-sided leeway, such as a buffer that is made larger than necessary because one isnt sure exactly how large it needs to be, and it is better to waste a little space than to lose completely for not having enough. A fudge factor, on the other hand, can often be tweaked in more than one direction. A good example is the "fuzz" typically allowed in floating-point calculations: two numbers being compared for equality must be allowed to differ by a small amount; if that amount is too small, a computation may never terminate, while if it is too large, results will be needlessly inaccurate. Fudge factors are frequently adjusted incorrectly by programmers who dont fully understand their import. See also coefficient of X. Fudgets
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