Anagram vs Recursion - What's the difference?
anagram | recursion |
(of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
To form anagrams.
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The act of recurring.
(mathematics) The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself.
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(computing) The calling of a function from within that same function.
As nouns the difference between anagram and recursion
is that anagram is (of words) a word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase while recursion is recursion.As a verb anagram
is to form anagrams.anagram
English
(wikipedia anagram)Alternative forms
* anagramme (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The word "silent" is an anagram of "listen".
Derived terms
* anagrammatic * anagrammatise * anagrammatism * anagrammatistSee also
* alphagram * palindromeVerb
recursion
English
(wikipedia recursion)Noun
(en noun)- However, we have still not achieved our goal of devising a finite'' set of rules
which will generate an ''infinite'' set of sentence structures. In order to achieve
this goal, we need to allow for the fact that natural languages typically have
the property that they allow potentially infinite ''recursion'' of particular struc-
tures. For example, one Clause can be ''embedded inside another indefinitely
many times, [...]
- n! = n × (n − 1)! (for n > 0) or 1 (for n = 0) defines the factorial function using recursion.
- This function uses recursion to compute factorials.