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Elephant in Cairo
An elephant in Cairo is a term used in computer programming to describe a piece of test data that is designed to ensure that an algorithm is working. The term derives from a humorous essay circulated on the Internet and published in Byte magazine in September 1989 that described how various professions would go about hunting elephants, with programmers following the algorithm:
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