Recursive vs Cumulative - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between recursive and cumulative

is that recursive is drawing upon itself, referring back while cumulative is incorporating all data up to the present.

{{examples-right, sense=function, The factorial function - :

f(0) = 1

f(n) = n \times f(n-1)

where n is any natural number greater than 0}} (en adjective)

drawing upon itself, referring back.

The recursive nature of stories which borrow from each other

(mathematics, not comparable) of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms

(computing, not comparable) of a program or function that calls itself

(computing theory, not comparable, of a function) which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time

(computing theory, not comparable, of a set) whose characteristic function is recursive (4)

* (of a function) primitive recursive

* recursively enumerable

* recursive acronym * tail recursive *

(en adjective)

Incorporating all data up to the present

That is formed by accumulation of successive additions

* Francis Bacon

As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative , not original.

* Trench

The argument is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative .

That tends to accumulate

(finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid

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