This story is based upon a research article, On the Cause of the 1930s Dust Bowl, recently published by Siegfried D. Schubert, Max J. Suarez, Philip J. Pegion , Randal D. Koster, and Julio T. Bacmeister in the March 19, 2004 edition of SCIENCE Magazine.
short stack(Noun) A relatively small amount of chips relative to the stakes. short stack(Noun) An amount of chips which is far less than the average in the tournament. short stack(Noun) A player who is in possession of a short stack. short stack(Noun) Two pancakes one on top of the other, as opposed to a stack of three.
Stack is a last-in, first-out (LIFO) data structure. i.e. the element added last to the stack will be the one to be removed first. Typical use cases of stacks include:- (1) During debugging it is quite common to examine the function call stack during panics. (2) In RTOS like Symbian there are concepts like cleanup stack to avoid memory leaks. Some of the common terminology associated with stacks include PUSH, POP and TOP of the stack.