I think the "stopgap" was introduced for the case where Sage silently gives 
incorrect results.

On Saturday, May 12, 2012 4:06:50 AM UTC+8, kcrisman wrote:
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> On Friday, May 11, 2012 3:34:26 PM UTC-4, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
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>> Did we ever decide on a standard label for mathematically incorrect 
>> results? This shouldn't drop under the radar. 
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> There is the "stopgap" terminology, but that's not what we called the 
> incorrect result, that's for the stopgap ticket itself.
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>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:37 AM, P Purkayastha <[email protected]> wrote: 
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>> > On Friday, May 11, 2012 4:58:53 PM UTC+8, Robert Samal wrote: 
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>> >> Hi! 
>> >> 
>> >> By some random experiments I discovered the following weirdness: 
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>> >> sage: bool(pi<Infinity) 
>> >> False 
>> >> sage: bool(pi>Infinity) 
>> >> True 
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>> > 
>> > This looks like a bad bug. I think you can open tickets for things like 
>> this 
>> > without announcing first. 
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