So far so good, but what has all of this got to do with something far less familiar – recursion? Recursion is just another way of repeating things. It’s simple at first but it has a habit of becoming ...

A fact I recently learnedI recently finished reading a book on automata, and according to that book, Turing machines, lambda calculus, and recursive functions all have the same computational ...

While not an algorithm itself, the technique of recursion is used within algorithms – particularly divide-and-conquer algorithms. It is an advanced idea and potentially confusing. The status of ...