Re: The dictionary definition of recursion

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From: gloga...
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 21:37

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On Monday, June 4, 2018 at 10:16:15 AM UTC-6, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
> Recursion : see  recursion.
> 
> As a recursive "elegant" solution,
> 
> factorial (1,000,000) is likely to
> crash most systems

Please name one such system.

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