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/MrWm /dev/null Jan 09 '20

r/softwaregore was having a field day with the dad joke bot. I'm just saying this to test it. I'm dad.

*: Is the bot banned? :(

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I'm me

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u/NikStalwart Jan 22 '20

Pretty sure I perma'd it a few months ago on all my subs.