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How to pronounce recursion in English?

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Type of formula, rule

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The recursion theory definition of algorithm requires them to be deterministic.
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Again, the function calls all use tail recursion, so the algorithm is in-place.
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Mathematical induction in this extended sense is closely related to recursion.
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Many sorts do this with assumed partitions to specify and recursion to track.
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One example application of recursion is in parsers for programming languages.
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The garbage collection ensures that mutual tail recursion can continue indefinitely.
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In those systems any support for recursion must be explicitly added to the language.
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Tail recursion of macros takes no memory, and if-then-else constructs are available.
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This is the recursion, and executes the function again until the base case is reached.
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  • (mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation
  • (recursive) of or relating to a recursion
  • Recursion, in mathematics and computer science, is a method of defining functions in which the function being defined is applied within its own definition; specifically it is defining an infinite statement using finite components. ...
  • Recursion in computer science is a method where the solution to a problem depends on solutions to smaller instances of the same problem. The approach can be applied to many types of problems, and is one of the central ideas of computer science.
  • Recursion (2004) is Tony Ballantyne's first novel. It is in the science fiction genre and follows three separate characters and their stories in a futuristic dystopia.
  • The act of recurring; The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself; The calling of a function from within that same function
  • (recursive) drawing upon itself, referring back; of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms; of a program or function that calls itself; which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time; whose ...
  • (recursive) A function is recursive if it calls itself. If the only place the function calls itself is the last expression of the function, then the function is tail recursive.
  • (recursive) A function or a subroutine that calls itself. Permitted from Fortran 90.