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Article #623793Re: The dictionary definition of recursion
From: Richard Thiebaud
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 00:07
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 00:07
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On 06/04/2018 05:37 PM, gloga...@gmail.com wrote: > 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. > Most compilers will implement factorial with tail recursion.
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