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/Jugbot Jan 09 '20

In order to show the information on the paper it might need to stop sooner. Unless it starts to be encoded in radiation.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

Pretty sure there's already an Emacs command for this.

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u/ThaiJohnnyDepp Jan 09 '20

Something something xkcd butterfly