Apparently, he had never heard of recursion.
Source: tatoeba (1360658)
Recursion
//ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)ʒən//
Synonyms for "recursion" (2 found)
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7 entriesTranslations
30 translations across 15 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- تَسَلْسُل noun (in mathematics)
- تَسَلْسُل noun (the invocation of a procedure from within itself)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 遞歸 /递归 noun (in mathematics)
- 遞迴 /递回 noun (in mathematics)
Czech
2 entries- rekurze noun (in mathematics)
- rekurze noun (the invocation of a procedure from within itself)
Dutch
1 entries- recursie noun (in mathematics)
Esperanto
2 entries- rekuro noun (in mathematics)
- rekuro noun (the invocation of a procedure from within itself)
Finnish
4 entries- rekursio noun (the act of recurring)
- rekursio noun (in mathematics)
- toisto noun (the act of recurring)
- uusinta noun (the act of recurring)
German
2 entries- Rekursion noun (in mathematics)
- Rekursion noun (the invocation of a procedure from within itself)
Greek
2 entries- αναδρομή noun (the act of recurring)
- αναδρομή noun (in mathematics)
Italian
2 entries- ricorsività noun (the act of recurring)
- ricorsività noun (in mathematics)
Polish
1 entries- rekurencja noun (in mathematics)
Portuguese
4 entries- recorrência noun (the act of recurring)
- recorrência noun (in mathematics)
- recursão noun (the act of recurring)
- recursão noun (the invocation of a procedure from within itself)
Russian
2 entries- реку́рсия noun (in mathematics)
- рекурсия noun (in mathematics)
Spanish
2 entries- recurrencia noun (in mathematics)
- recursión noun (the act of recurring)
Swedish
1 entries- rekursion noun (in mathematics)
Vietnamese
1 entries- đệ quy noun (in mathematics)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
To understand recursion you first need to understand recursion.
Source: tatoeba (1492804)
The inhabitants predicate the recursion of these storms by numerous other signs, and are prompt to take every precaution to avoid their effects.
Source: wiktionary
n! = n × (n − 1)! (for n > 0) or 1 (for n = 0) defines the factorial function using recursion.
Source: wiktionary
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