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A PUZZLE
this is a rough draft of a short story A software developer and part time hacker, DARIUS, is returning to his high-rise apartment, after going for a run. As he jogs up the stairs, he is concentrating hard on solving a Rubik's cube in each hand. As he reaches the third or fourth …
Istigkeit
The finger that points to the moon is not the moon — Old Mate Thich Nhat Hanh Istigkeit! I shout, with all my breath, ISTIGKEIT! But for all the world, all that is heard is a whisper. That notorious German word: Istigkeit ...translates, most literally, as "Isness" What "is" …
Mutual Recursion A
A pair of methods are mutually recursive if: - The first method calls the second method, and, see also See also - This is the first condition of a mutually recursive pair of pages. For the second condition read Mutual-Recursion-B…
Mutual Recursion B
- The second method calls the first method. For example... See also - This is the second condition of a mutually recursive pair of pages. For the first condition read Mutual-Recursion-A…
Recursion
This page is an example of bound recursion. If you've already read this page, please stop reading now. Otherwise, please continue. To be useful, recursion needs to have boundary conditions, base cases, exits, limitations: things that stop it from running on forever and ever and…
Songs That Reference Themselves
- Jugband Blues (Pink Floyd) - You're So Vain (Carly Simon) - Hit Song (Custard) - Your Song (Elton John) - 1999 (Prince) - Weeping Song (Nick Cave) - The Fear (Pulp) - Tribute (Tenacious D) - The Song that Doesn't End (Lambchop) - Get On Your Nerves Jugband Blues - Pink Floyd …
Temporal Paradox
Doc: A paradox! Marty: What? Doc: A paradox! Marty: You mean one of those things that destroys the universe? — *Back to the Future II* A temporal paradox is any paradox that arises due to a person, object, or information, travelling backward in time. As discussed in Unbound…
Unbounded Recursion
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Please see Unbounded Recursion (Alternatively see Recursion where you can learn about applying bounds to your recursion, or detecting cycles in referential data structures) there is no general method to determine whether a given program will ever halt or will run forever; this …
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