Recursion
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| '''Recursion''', in [[mathematics]] and [[computer science]], is a method of defining [[Function (mathematics)|functions]] in which the function being defined is applied within its own definition. The term is also used more generally to describe a process of repeating objects in a self-similar way. For instance, when the surfaces of two mirrors are exactly parallel with each other the nested images that occur are a form of infinite recursion. | '''Recursion''', in [[mathematics]] and [[computer science]], is a method of defining [[Function (mathematics)|functions]] in which the function being defined is applied within its own definition. The term is also used more generally to describe a process of repeating objects in a self-similar way. For instance, when the surfaces of two mirrors are exactly parallel with each other the nested images that occur are a form of infinite recursion. | ||
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| + | * [[Corecursion]] | ||
| + | * [[Course-of-values recursion]] | ||
| + | * [[Digital infinity]] | ||
| + | * [[Fixed point combinator]] | ||
| + | * [[Infinite loop]] | ||
| + | * [[Infinitism]] | ||
| + | * [[Iterated function]] | ||
| + | * [[Mise en abyme]] | ||
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| + | * [[Reentrant (subroutine)]] | ||
| + | * [[Self-reference]] | ||
| + | * [[Strange loop]] | ||
| + | * [[Tail recursion]] | ||
| + | * [[Tupper's self-referential formula]] | ||
| + | * [[Turtles all the way down]] | ||
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Recursion, in mathematics and computer science, is a method of defining functions in which the function being defined is applied within its own definition. The term is also used more generally to describe a process of repeating objects in a self-similar way. For instance, when the surfaces of two mirrors are exactly parallel with each other the nested images that occur are a form of infinite recursion.
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