C's printf is one of the most widely used variadic functions.
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Variadic
//vɛɹiˈædɪk//
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Finnish
1 entries- variadinen adj (taking a variable number of arguments)
French
1 entries- variadique adj (taking a variable number of arguments)
German
1 entries- variadisch adj (taking a variable number of arguments)
Hungarian
1 entries- variadikus adj (taking a variable number of arguments)
Russian
1 entries- принимающий переменное число́ параметров adj (taking a variable number of arguments)
Spanish
1 entries- variádico adj (taking a variable number of arguments)
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There are some functions and predicates which we tend to think of as being able to take any number of parameters – of being of variable arity or variadic.
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The variadic functions that increase the valence of the input relation through the addition of a circumstance to the set of its argument-roles can be represented by means of an operator (or rather, a family of operators) ‘Circ’.
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However, the real max procedure of Scheme is a variadic procedure, which means that it accepts any positive number of arguments: ¶ (max 5 1 3 8 9 7 2 6 4) => 9
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