Recursion vs Psychosis - What's the difference?
recursion | psychosis |
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.
(label) A severe mental disorder, sometimes with physical damage to the brain, marked by a deranged personality and a distorted view of reality.
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As nouns the difference between recursion and psychosis
is that recursion is recursion while psychosis is (label) a severe mental disorder, sometimes with physical damage to the brain, marked by a deranged personality and a distorted view of reality.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 recursionpsychosis
English
Noun
(wikipedia psychosis) (psychoses)Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese
