Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Mathematics An expression, such as a polynomial, each term of which is determined by application of a formula to preceding terms.
- n. Mathematics A formula that generates the successive terms of a recursion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The act of recurring.
- n. The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself.
- n. The calling of a function from within that same function.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The act of recurring; return.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Return.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. (mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation
Etymologies
Examples
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Kretsinger, known by the moniker "recursion," grabbed confidential information from Sony and passed it along to other members of LulzSec, who posted the stolen material on its website, according to the indictment.
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Kretsinger, who went by the moniker "recursion," helped post information he and his co-conspirators stole from Sony on LulzSec's website and announced the intrusion via the hacking group's Twitter account, the indictment said.
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Kretsinger, known by the moniker "recursion," grabbed confidential information from Sony, passed it along to other members of LulzSec who posted the stolen material on its website, according to the indictment.
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A procedure that goes through recursion is said to be recursive.
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FLN, on the other hand, is distinctive to humans and what is special about it is its power of recursion, that is, its ability to categorize linguistic objects into hierarchically organized classes, and (on the behavioral side) for the generation of infinitely many sentences out of finitely many words.
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The simplest type of recursion occurs when a given function is iterated.
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Now that Clojure and Scala have brought semi-mainstream functional programming to the JVM and there are rumors of tail call recursion support in the JVM at some point, we might see other functional languages port to the JVM as well (which would be a huge win, in my opinion).
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Then, once it has placed the master limb by doing this fashion (recall that ptTL describes the master's limb position with respect to the returned bitmap) it calls a recursion function that receives a
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Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization.
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One very nice bonus, compared to print_r is that the format handles recursion, which is very handy for dumping the output in a presentable form.
uselessness commented on the word recursion
The best new jokes are old ones?
October 15, 2007
seanahan commented on the word recursion
On a related note, see infinite loop.
October 13, 2007
skipvia commented on the word recursion
Har! You made my day with this one, uselessness.
October 13, 2007
uselessness commented on the word recursion
....can't....stop....clicking....
October 13, 2007
reesetee commented on the word recursion
Heehee.
October 13, 2007
arby commented on the word recursion
Heh.
October 13, 2007
npydyuan commented on the word recursion
see recursion
October 13, 2007