block transfer computations

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

block transfer computations

   <algorithm, humour> (From the UK television series "Dr. Who")
   Computations so fiendishly subtle and complex that they could
   not be performed by machines.  Used to refer to any task that
   should be expressible as an {algorithm} in theory, but isn't.

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   (2004-09-28)