Recursion vs Repetition - What's the difference?
recursion | repetition |
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.
The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
(lb): The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion; also called a rep'. A group of ' repetitions is a set.
To petition again.
* 2011 , Anneke Campbell, ?Thomas Lizney, Be the Change (page 7)
As nouns the difference between recursion and repetition
is that recursion is the act of recurring while repetition is the act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.As a verb repetition is
to petition again.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 recursionrepetition
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) repetitionem'' (accusative singular of ''repetitio ).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- The group went through several rounds at different courts, petitioning and repetitioning , losing again and again.