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  2. General recursive function - Wikipedia

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    The μ-recursive functions (or general recursive functions) are partial functions that take finite tuples of natural numbers and return a single natural number. They are the smallest class of partial functions that includes the initial functions and is closed under composition, primitive recursion, and the minimization operator μ .

  3. Recursive function - Wikipedia

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    Recursive function may refer to: Recursive function (programming), a function which references itself; General recursive function, a computable partial function from natural numbers to natural numbers Primitive recursive function, a function which can be computed with loops of bounded length; Another name for computable function

  4. Mutual recursion - Wikipedia

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    These examples reduce easily to a single recursive function by inlining the forest function in the tree function, which is commonly done in practice: directly recursive functions that operate on trees sequentially process the value of the node and recurse on the children within one function, rather than dividing these into two separate functions.

  5. Recursion - Wikipedia

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    A recursive step — a set of rules that reduces all successive cases toward the base case. For example, the following is a recursive definition of a person's ancestor. One's ancestor is either: One's parent (base case), or; One's parent's ancestor (recursive step). The Fibonacci sequence is another classic example of recursion: Fib(0) = 0 as ...

  6. Fold (higher-order function) - Wikipedia

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    In functional programming, fold (also termed reduce, accumulate, aggregate, compress, or inject) refers to a family of higher-order functions that analyze a recursive data structure and through use of a given combining operation, recombine the results of recursively processing its constituent parts, building up a return value.

  7. Anonymous recursion - Wikipedia

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    Even without mechanisms to refer to the current function or calling function, anonymous recursion is possible in a language that allows functions as arguments. This is done by adding another parameter to the basic recursive function and using this parameter as the function for the recursive call.

  8. Primitive recursive function - Wikipedia

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    The importance of primitive recursive functions lies in the fact that most computable functions that are studied in number theory (and more generally in mathematics) are primitive recursive. For example, addition and division , the factorial and exponential function , and the function which returns the n th prime are all primitive recursive. [ 1 ]

  9. Fixed-point combinator - Wikipedia

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    The Y combinator allows recursion to be defined as a set of rewrite rules, [21] without requiring native recursion support in the language. [22] In programming languages that support anonymous functions, fixed-point combinators allow the definition and use of anonymous recursive functions, i.e. without having to bind such functions to identifiers.