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S vs Recursive - What's the difference?

s | recursive |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective recursive is

drawing upon itself, referring back.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    recursive

    English

    Adjective

    {{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)

    • Hyponyms

    * (of a function) primitive recursive

    Hypernyms

    * recursively enumerable

    Related terms

    * recursivity * recurrent * recurrence * recursion * recursive conundrum * co-recursive

    Derived terms

    * recursive acronym * tail recursive *

    See also

    * (wikipedia)