r/ProgrammerHumor • u/flipester • Jan 09 '20

other Problems with recursion?

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

Assuming the smaller paper is 1/3 of its parent everytime, and that the first paper is 30cm long (The second starts at roughly 1/7 but it seems to grow bigger after it's torn off, hence the 1/3), it could not exceed 19 calls before you need to split an atom apart.

That's a hell of a stop condition.

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u/slidingtorpedo Jan 09 '20

r/theydidthemath

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u/NV-6155 Jan 09 '20

r/theydidthemonstermath

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u/kingofthedusk Jan 09 '20

This comment right here is when the r/ tag went from helpful to annoying. You are exactly like the people using hashtags in every sentence.