User:JWSchmidt~enwiktionary/recursion

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Illustration of recursion

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recursion edit

1. The act of recurring.

2. What happens when a function calls itself.

example: the factorial function;

factorial(n) = n * factorial(n-1)

See also: Wiktionary.

See the section titled "recursion

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