recursion.
The act of recurring.
Meaning & usage
The act of recurring.
The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself.
n! = n × (n − 1)! (for n > 0) or 1 (for n = 0) defines the factorial function using recursion.
The invocation of a procedure from within itself.
This function uses recursion to compute factorials.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin recursiō (“the act of running back or again, return”), from recurrō (“run back; return”), from re- (“back, again”) + currō (“run”).
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