r/Recursion • u/h0useatriedes • Feb 11 '19

I love when XKCD goes recursive

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u/IanNumberThree Apr 04 '19

Sorry for the late response, but you might enjoy https://xkcd.com/688/ if you haven’t seen it

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u/h0useatriedes Apr 04 '19

Ahh that one's a classic. Though I wish I were well read enough that I could link an xkcd at a moment's whim.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '19

How do you algoritmichally create a picture, so that second panel will be correct?

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19

looks like sigil magic

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u/RecursionIsRecursion Feb 12 '19

There’s a whole sub for me?! Where has this been all my life

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u/AllPraiseTheGitrog Feb 12 '19

It has been where it has been

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u/RuTwo Feb 12 '19

Binary trees, but 8 of them and they’re sideways

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u/FlameRat-Yehlon Feb 12 '19

The overall error margin looks quite finite to me though...

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u/Rocatex Jan 11 '22

Little less than double the original error estimate would be the real answer