An elephant in Cairo is a term used in computer programming to describe a piece of data that matches the search criteria purposefully inserted at the end of a search space, in order to make sure the search algorithm terminates; it is a humorous example of a sentinel value. The term derives from a humorous essay circulated on the Internet that was published in Byte magazine on September 1989, describing how various professions would go about hunting elephants.[1]
^Olsen, Peter C. (September 1989), "Pachydermic Personnel Prediction", Stop Bit, Byte, p. 404
sentinel value is sometimes known as an "ElephantinCairo," due to a joke where this is used as a physical sentinel. In safe languages, most sentinel values...
separate elephant species, that existed in North Africa, north of the Sahara, until it died out in Roman times. These were the famous war elephants used by...
Reductio ad absurdum The proof of the pudding All models are wrong ElephantinCairo No true Scotsman Occam's razor Fowler, Henry (1965). A Dictionary...
ElephantinCairo Guard (computer science), a boolean expression that must evaluate to true if the program execution is to continue in the branch in question...
of Google Easter eggs List of Easter eggs in Microsoft products The Book of Mozilla ElephantinCairo, in computer programming, a piece of data inserted...
A war elephant was an elephant that was trained and guided by humans for combat. The war elephant's main use was to charge the enemy, break their ranks...
Distribution (ACPD)" in Egypt. "Egyptian Novelist, Ahmed Mourad". Prime Cairo. Retrieved 23 February 2015. Field, Roger. "The Blue Elephant pushes the boundaries"...
Streets of Cairo", "The Poor Little Country Maid", and "the snake charmer song", is a well-known melody, published in different forms in the 19th century...
The Cairo apartment building, located at 1615 Q Street NW in Washington, D.C., is a landmark in the Dupont Circle neighborhood and the District of Columbia's...
musician and actor. Nazih graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University in 1998. During his graduation year, he composed the soundtrack for...
The Mosque of the Elephant (Arabic: الجامع الفيلة, romanized: Jami al-Fila) was a small mosque built in 1105 by the vizier, and de facto ruler of the...
Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists, 2000. Vol. 2. Cairo: American University inCairo Press. pp. 168–75. ISBN 978-977-424-714-9. Baker, Darrell...
Azrq (The Blue Elephant) (2016)Eshtebak( Clash ) (2017) Bashteri Ragel (I Buy A man) ( as Shams) (2019) El Fil El Azra' 2(The Blue Elephant 2) (2020) Khat...
in 1922. Fuad was born in Giza Palace inCairo, the fifth issue of Isma'il Pasha.[citation needed] He spent his childhood with his exiled father in Naples...
miles from Cairo. After walking most of the way to the port, Tad leaves Cissie and the elephant to rest and continues ahead by himself. InCairo, he is caught...
German University inCairo- Applied Arts & Science. She previously attended school at Port Said Language School in Zamalek, Cairo. She started acting...
found themselves trapped in the Kraków Ghetto. After his mother and father were taken in raids, Polanski spent his formative years in foster homes, surviving...
Nairobi: the Cairo-Cape Town Highway and the Lagos-Mombasa Highway. Nairobi is served by highways that link Mombasa to Kampala in Uganda and Arusha in Tanzania...
been killed in traffic collisions. This list does not include those who were killed competing on closed-road events whether in motorsport or in competitive...
Award in 2015, the Honorary César in 2017, AFI Life Achievement Award in 2018, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2022. Clooney started his career in television...
Council 1852–1853) the Forty Elephants, an all-female London criminal gang The nickname for the participants in the 1921 Cairo Conference Forty Thieves (card...
with Louis against Syria and gave him an elephant to this end in 1252–1253.: 2 The elephant was brought from Cairo to Acre, along with many freed prisoners...
traffic.: page 1252 The Cairo-Cape Town Highway passes through Tanzania. The 86,500 kilometres (53,700 mi) road system is in generally poor condition...
2021). "From the Grounds Up: Coffeeshops and the History of Iranian Art". ELEPHANT. Retrieved 31 January 2024. "Iran Cultural Heritage, Handcraft and Tourism...
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast...
Internet hit. The ads were created by the ElephantCairo agency and written by Ali Ali and Maged Nassar. In each commercial, a person is offered Panda...
phosphates, pumice, and salt. Burkina Faso has a larger number of elephants than many countries in West Africa. Lions, leopards and buffalo can also be found...
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