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recursion
Last modified: Thursday, September 18, 2003
A
programming
method in which a
routine
calls
itself. Recursion is an extremely powerful concept, but it can strain a
computer's
memory
resources
. Some
programming languages
, such as
LISP
and
Prolog
, are specifically designed to use recursive methods.
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