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état puit

English translation: in a loop


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French term or phrase:état puit
English translation:in a loop
Entered by: Gayle Wallimann
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09:45 Feb 28, 2006
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Tech/Engineering - Electronics / Elect Eng / I have used
French term or phrase: état puit
état puit (Description of a system in "PANNE" status)
Shilpa Dawda
India
Local time: 13:15
in a loop
Explanation:
The sytem can't get out of the loop, it is an error in your context.

"état puits boucle sur toute action"...page 22 du lien français.


I cant find any links with both terms in the same text. Hope someone will be able to come up with one to back this up. I can only give the two definitions for you to compare.

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4 +2in a loop
Gayle Wallimann
1 +1well, well, wellxxxBourth


  

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
in a loop


Explanation:
The sytem can't get out of the loop, it is an error in your context.

"état puits boucle sur toute action"...page 22 du lien français.


I cant find any links with both terms in the same text. Hope someone will be able to come up with one to back this up. I can only give the two definitions for you to compare.




    Reference: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/infinite_loop
    Reference: http://www.irisa.fr/cote/doc/L22.pdf
Gayle Wallimann
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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): +1
well, well, well


Explanation:
Isn't this the pits! Looks like the program has been shafted!

Wish I knew the English for it. Something with "hang" comes to mind, but I don't know if it is really the right word.

Maybe these definitions will point someone else in the right direction:

il suffit de vérifier sur l’automate précédent, l’absence d’un «état puits» qui correspond à un état atteignable duquel on n’en peut plus sortir
http://www.lb.refer.org/chebaro/page4_6.htm

Par exemple, un état puits structurel est un état à partir duquel il n'existe aucune transition vers d'autres états. Par opposition, une propriété fonctionnelle est une propriété dont la véracité dépend de l'état des données internes du modèle. Un état puits fonctionnel est ainsi un état dont toutes les transitions aval ne peuvent être franchies, et ce de manière temporaire ou permanente, à cause d'une certaine configuration des données internes.
http://www.lgi2p.ema.fr/~chapurla/recherche.html


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Note added at 5 hrs (2006-02-28 15:31:31 GMT)
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Sounds a bit like deadlock (deathly embrace), i.e. when the computer hangs because it simultaneously requires information from two interdependent processes.

xxxBourth
Local time: 09:45
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M: I can't help thinking it means it's in a 'trough', but I've never actually come across this expression in EN.
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