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Posted by Gaby vanhegan on 07/06/05 01:43
On 5 Jul 2005, at 23:08, Rene Brehmer wrote:
>> Mostly it impressed me that recursion wasn't "cool" -- just another
>> "tool"
>> and one that you only should pull out 1% of the time.
>
> When we learned about recursion it took our teacher 15 minutes to come
> up
> with an example for what the heck it was good for ... and it wasn't
> even a
> good one (can't remember what it was).
I have a Sudoku solver that requires every single permutation of sets
of numbers for testing against, which I find a recursive function
generates extremely quickly. The main uses I find are, as stated
before, for building trees of data or doing very abstract problem
solving.
Gaby
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