Recursion vs Null - What's the difference?
recursion | null |
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.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between recursion and null
is that recursion is recursion while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.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.
Derived terms
* tail recursion * infinite recursionnull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.