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| ----- Forwarded message from JR Conlin ----- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 07:46:20 -0700 From: JR Conlin <jrconlin@email.com> Subject: RE: Would-be hacker queries. You know, I have never really liked the factorial example of recursion. Honestly, how many (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) That is a rather limited version of recursion, which does not, in general, require f(n-1) to evaluate f(n). What you have described is actually (a subset of) partial recursion, which is provably incomplete (i.e. cannot implement some (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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