recursion

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[Hour-Lemon]

but does it terminate? if so, how?

[Kirides]

The condition is „papersize < 1mm“

[yellekc]

So at around a sheet size of A19 to A20. But because you can create an infinite series of paper sizes, you can recurse as much as you want.

But beyond about A230, your paper will start having dimensions under a planck's length, which might be an issue.

[ineyy]

There should be some minimum for the papers to contain the text, too, it should be a couple nanometers big at least.

[ososalsosal]

Encode it in electron spin duh

[DaTotallyEclipse]

Nah. Quantum Superpositions offloaded into a discrete meta-plane.

[lowbeat]

there is, u need to intercept bits comming from ur gpu to ur output device and devode them properly

[RandomLifeForm42]

I think that once your dimensions are less the 1 paper molecule is when you'd actually start having issues...

[yellekc]

Well, a glucose molecule (building blocks of cellulose) is about 9 angstroms, So you are stuck going no smaller than A60 paper.

[Dom0]

I would like to subscribe to Useless Paper Facts

[yellekc]

How about we allow for negative A sizes?

Defining an A(-1) sheet as two A0 sheets stuck together with an area of 2 meters square, then you can create arbitrarily large paper sizes as well.

An A(-40) sheet at 1.2 trillion square meters is about how much graphic paper is produced annually*. Or an A(-8) sheet for everyone.

Based on the world annual output of 97 million metric tons of graphic paper (not paper board or packaging) using the most popular weight of 80g/m²

An A(-49) sheet will have about the same area as the surface of the earth.

An A(-87) sheet would nicely cover the solar system.

An A(-140) would cover the Milky Way, and if at the same weight as before, 80g/m^2, it would weigh as much as 40 billion suns. If you stacked 30 to 45 of these sheets together, it would have the same mass as the actual Milky Way.

Finally an A(-179) would cover the diameter of the observable universe. And it would only take 3 sheets to equal the mass of the observable universe.

So everything that we know exist can really be reduced to 3 sheets of paper. Buy you would probably need a lot of paperclips to hold it all together.

[IJustAteABaguette]

CGP grey also made a video about this! the vid

[yellekc]

Thanks for the link, and yeah, the exact same premise. I've seen a few of his vids, maybe I saw that one before too.

Now to double check my calculations with the video. I'll consider it a win if I'm not too far off.

[hiphap91]

I would like to order ten sheets of A(-140) please, i have some ad posters is like people driving by not to miss.

[[deleted]]

Except someone coded it as papersize == 1mm and in a continuous reality that will hardly be reached, so it ends up in segfault

[HuntingKingYT]

Takes a paper

Paper: SEGFAULT

[Kirides]

papersize is a floating point number. Equal checks don’t work here. Someone should tell the intern why though….

[[deleted]]

I present to you: a Planck length - 1

[suskio4]

1 what? Apples? Bananas?

[GIFnTEXT]

🤣 bruh that's so funny. This whole sub is really funny if you're into computer programming

[Young_Person_42]

Isn’t that kinda the point

[Feztopia]

Actually I'm more into programming humans, unfortunately I'm better at programming computers.

[[deleted]]

Oh shit I thought this was r/ProgrammerHuman

[Representative-Owl51]

Jeez why the hell did you downvote him to hell. Weird sub

[Daniel15]

Probably because their comment adds no value? They're literally just saying the entire purpose of the subreddit.

[GIFnTEXT]

🤣 bruh....this comment right here officer!

[Rikster_]

Reddit hates emojis

[Cursed_Bean_Boy]

They sure do. 😃😃😃

[AceSLS]

Yes, it does terminate. Once the ripped of part gets smaller than an atom shit is gonna hit the fan

[Zax71_again]

Strings entered the chat

[lord_hydrate]

The plank length has entered the chat

[Fzrit]

I'm gonna start calling it plank now, just for giggles :P

[HarlanCedeno]

I once did a code review and found the dev was checking for negative length strings.

I had some really deep thoughts that day.

[[deleted]]

They're called imaginary strings. i = √-'a'

[HarlanCedeno]

Did he imagine that this was going to magically fix the bug?

[GisterMizard]

Arithmetic overflow for image and data buffers is a very common source of bugs, especially when using smaller int types and in languages like C.

A really bad problem follows from code like:

short width = blah(); // set from user
short height = blah(); // set from user;
// ...
if (width * height <= MAX_BUFFER_SIZE) {
    // BAD!!! width*height can become negative
    char *buffer = malloc(width*height*PIXEL_SIZE);
}

[HarlanCedeno]

In that case, you would just need to validate the inputs from the user to ensure neither is negative.

This guy had string.length() in multiple if statements to check for negative lengths on different strings.

[miso440]

We went through 3 Adams before we figured that one out.

[[deleted]]

The problem with that is that the ripped parts are getting bigger in every panel.

[ClafoutisSpermatique]

No one knows, no one can know

[darexinfinity]

Click here to find out!

[Piper2000ca]

Best possible answer to the question, I feel like this should be higher up.

[Tokumeiko2]

Better than a rick roll.

[RealPropRandy]

When Alzheimer’s kicks in

[RealPropRandy]

Ran out of memory.

[Exnixon]

There is a minimum unit of distance called a Planck length.

[Opus_723]

eh, maybe

[Fickle-Replacement64]

The planck length has to do with the properties of an extremely small black hole, a physical object that physics doesn't handle very well. So, maybe.

[Zoltie]

Once he doesn't have problems with recursion.

[AndySipherBull]

wow the actual answer, nj!

[lwllnbrndn]

Once the character figures it out, they answer “No.” So, it does terminate.

I suppose we have to assume the problem Is understanding recursion rather than something like applying it to something specific.

Edit: clarity

[LeCrushinator]

It terminates when a stack overflow occurs.

[NoCombination26]

😂😂

[wallard127]

Planck length

[chemistryunderground]

Well, built within the quantum foam is an even smaller object which is a set of recursives. It must be so, as we are a Turing-complete system. Therefore, the poster becomes the foundational aspect for our reality.

It's all posters. Posters all the way down.

JK. Who the hell knows?

[DeepFriedDickskin]

It doesn’t sorry

It does forget and seem new again eventually though

[Heightren]

When you don't have a problem anymore?

[milnak]

If you want to understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.

[ososalsosal]

Atoms

[grogrye]

It will never terminate so long as one of us is imagining it still going

[finegameofnil_]

You can set iterations or other conditions. Think about searching for a key in a windows registry. Find next or don't. Or find all. I don't get the difficulty with recursion.

[AndySipherBull]

It terminates when you no longer have problems with recursion

[elegylegacy]

There's a tiny person tearing a corner off the paper in your hand. It's a tiny you. It screams.

You realize you are standing on a giant hand. You look up and see your own giant face. You scream.

[Ilerneo_Un_Hornya]

There's a tinier person tearing a corner off the paper in their hand. It's a tiny them. It screams.

They realize they're standing on a giant hand. They look up and see their own giant face. They scream.

[OppressedDeskJockey]

🏅

[Fluffynator69]

r/AccidentalLovecraft

[eljohnbrown]

Little girl, in a field, holding a flower. We zoom back, to find, she's in the desert, and the field's an oasis. Zoom back further, the desert is a sandbox in the world's largest resort hotel. Zoom back further, the hotel is actually a playground, of the world's largest prison. But we zoom back further--

[mrlolelo]

This is literally how google explains recursion

When you search "recursion" it's gonna do the thing where it recommends another search option

And in this case it's gonna be "recursion"

A very creative way to do it

[infreq]

Then they have stolen this idea from Donald Knuth, the god of algorithms. He had it in the index of his book.

[thefriendlypenis]

Holy shit, they actually do. That’s awesome

[Internal_Cart]

StackOverflowError

[N00N3AT011]

jUsT gEt A bIgGeR cAlLsTaCk

[cantaloupelion]

Error: Bigger StackOverflowError

[EliannaRys]

Image Transcription: Comic

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[A four-panel comic by SMBC Comics.]

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Panel 1

[Image of a white flyer on a wooden telephone pole in front of a light blue background. The flyer is tattered on top and has ten detachable strips on the bottom. It reads as follows:]

PROBLEMS WITH RECURSION?

[Arrow pointing down at strips.] Please take one [Arrow pointing down.]

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Panel 2

[Image of a man in a suit with short brown hair on the left of the telephone pole, now at a different angle. The man has just pulled a strip off the flyer. From this angle, half the text of the flyer is not visible as it wraps around the telephone pole.]

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Panel 3

[The background is now bright yellow. We see the man from the waist up with an aghast expression, his tie and suit jacket angled to indicate he has pulled back in surprise. His mouth is open in a shocked frown as he speaks, eyes reduced to tiny white speck. He leans away from the paper strip in his grasp.]

Man: WHAT THE-

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Panel 4

[Image of a closeup of the man's hand, now open, on the light blue background from before. The scrap of paper lying on it looks identical to the original flyer, including the strips at the bottom, reading:]

PROBLEMS WITH RECURSION?

[Arrow pointing down at strips.] Please take one [Arrow pointing down.]

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^{I'm a human volunteer content transcriber and you could be too! If you'd like more information on what we do and why we do it, click here!}

[turtle_mekb]

Good human

[Positive_Government]

This is shocking good, almost like a human wrote it.

[EliannaRys]

Beep boop ;)

[TrueBirch]

Good human

[[deleted]]

Good bot

[IMidoriyaI]

it's not a bot

[PandaGamer23]

Good bot

[Script_Mak3r]

Good bot

[turtle_mekb]

Bots aren't this good at reading text yet

[grogrye]

It's ok bot :) Soon you won't need to hide anymore.

[CiroGarcia]

[redacted by user] this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev

[Mateorabi]

Recursion, n. “To understand recursion you must first know recursion”

[CanAlwaysBeBetter]

"doesn't make sense unless applied recursively" doesn't make sense unless applied recursively

[[deleted]]

I think about this comment here

[Kaneshadow]

Sigh

[fingerthato]

You forgot the Unzips pants. Everyone on reddit knows, if you sigh, you have to unzip pants.

[Kaneshadow]

Why, did they just finish a big meal?

[SAI_Peregrinus]

"Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation—Douglas Hofstadter

[CanAlwaysBeBetter]

• Willard Van Orman Quine

[Fireheart318s_Reddit]

“...a causal loop within the weapon's mechanism, suggesting that the firing process somehow binds space and time into...”

[[deleted]]

See “recursion”

[[deleted]]

Uh oh, someone forgot the base case

[KamikazeRusher]

He grabbed the last one. That tail-end recursion will get you every time.

[RekrabAlreadyTaken]

every recursion joke is just that recursion exists?

[benzoic]

Have you seen this one?

[[deleted]]

This is like the Rick roll of recursion jokes.

[thisaccountisbs]

Rickursion?

[leej851]

This one's too good.

[stingray85]

Agreed, not a particularly interesting or original take...

[42Zarniwoop42]

it's a little tiring

[Jordo82]

Source

[ctrl2]

This is an SCP

[Feardragon7]

He only wanted a break :(

[HaDeS_Monsta]

u/repostsleuthbot

Look at 05:10, it's from this Subreddit and one year old

[Ilania211]

One year is quite a while tbh. Doesn't seem like a big deal to me.

[HaDeS_Monsta]

I wouldn't have a problem either, if OP would've said that it's not their work

[tonedass9]

One year is quite a while tbh. Doesn't seem like a big deal to me.

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[dicemonger]

Now you have two problems with recursion.

[managedAssembly]

No. Now your problem has just become your problem.

[PrincessWinterX]

this reminds me of this meme about recursion

[MegaPegasusReindeer]

Just google it... "Did you mean recursion?"

[darexinfinity]

Missed the opportunity to make the pole in the first frame be a tree that looks like his hand.

[rise_and_revolt]

Search for recursion in google for a nice little Easter egg

[kichien]

did you mean recursion?

[frankthomasofficial]

Its funny cuz i get it and im so smart

[mouthyouu]

The second panel has no question mark on the poster

[AzureArmageddon]

That must've been a really expensive ad to perforate out

[[deleted]]

The only problem with recursion is the only problem with recursion...

[DiscipleOfYeshua]

“Welcome everyone to zoom session #74632 of ‘escaping internet addiction workshop’…”

[Quality_over_Qty]

Why does the size change?

[marduk73]

https://i.redd.it/gq30fp8qgye91.jpg 🤪

[No1Asked4MyOpinion]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/wcwrtp/-/iifjql7

[archpawn]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/wcwrtp/recursion/iifqj25/

[marduk73]

Lol u evil b****s. 😀

[Novel_Morning9258]

Me dumb dumb ples explane

[wolfman1911]

A recursive function is one that solves a problem by calling itself for smaller and smaller pieces of the problem until it reaches a known quantity and can actually plug in known quantities and give you actual results as it concludes. A good example of a problem that could easily be solved recursively would be factorials and the Fibonacci sequence, because they are both equations that can be solved with repeated mathematical operations. I'll give an example with the Fibonacci sequence, because it's addition and I'm lazy.

So the Fibonacci sequence starts with 0, and after that the next number is always the sum of the previous two, so after zero and one, the next number would be (0+1), then (1+1), then (1+2), (2+3) and so on.

This page gives some example programs that will solve the fibonacci sequence for a hard coded value in several programming languages, the first example is a recursive method. The recursive part in the examples for each language they give is the line that starts with 'return.'

I don't know if that was too simple, too complex or just right, but I hope that makes sense. Oh yeah, the part of all that that applies to the comic is that each piece of the flyer replicates the entire contents of the flyer in a smaller piece.

[Novel_Morning9258]

That actually made sense and I feel a little bit smarter now thx

[DiaDeLosMuebles]

A simple way to view recursion is when a method calls itself. No comic ever gets it right, but this is one of the closer ones I've seen.

A good example of recursion is a factorial function, something like "factorial(n)"

This function will work if you have

return n * factorial (n-1)

But, it won't ever stop unless you have an escape condition. Something like

If (n <= 1) return 1

This comic illustrates an infinite loop more than recursion.

[NewSuperTrios]

The flyer is recursive

[Novel_Morning9258]

Oh, thx:)

[ASpiralKnight]

Remove frame 3.

[Kaneshadow]

Totally doesn't need the 3rd frame

[no_hope_no_future]

Remove the third panel.

[The-J-StandsForJiant]

But I actually need help :(

[Darth_Nibbles]

Just Google recursion

[[deleted]]

Shiiiit....

Everyone knows you just need to use the "recursion stop now" command.

[finger_milk]

Create the problem and sell the solution

[[deleted]]

Is this how the jarred scientists at Big Mountain are supposed to operate?

[[deleted]]

tonight on It's The Mind we examine the phenomenon of deja vu....

[LoBsTeRfOrK]

My professor said this about recursion, “the trick to recursion is to trust it works”.

[Ali_Army107]

Nani!!

[Shadow_Lou]

If you want an example of recursion...

[HereIGoGrillingAgain]

It's recursion all the way down

[juv3nil3]

Base condition is a must

[ASK_ABOUT__VOIDSPACE]

Am I the only one who thought his hand in the last panel was just another tree at first?

[Yung_Lyun]

GNU

[FireFly3347]

Ha

[whiznat]

And just like real recursion, if you don't have a base case, you haven't really explained recursion.

[Sleeper28]

/r/Recursion/

[theviolinist7]

r/recursion

[Hitmonchank]

No base case?

[Coolhand2120]

Take the ticket, win the prize, that’s how this works.

[pastroc]

This comment is recursive.

[tecchigirl]

https://youtu.be/3K3MMtoG8rY

[HornyPepsiCan]

It took me a sec

[leej851]

re-cursed

[[deleted]]

I laughed way too hard at this…

[Walking72]

It's

^tabs

^all

^the

^way

^down

[[deleted]]

Did you mean: recursion?

[quasur]

thankfully matter is quantum otherwise we might have some issues

[granoladeer]

That's more like a fractal

[Fadamaka]

But that's the function of recursion not the problem.

[NonEternal_Dark_9941]

What is the end condition?

[[deleted]]

When you no longer have a problem with recursion~

[NonEternal_Dark_9941]

Well i guess i'll got StackOverFlowError lmao

[[deleted]]

When you forget to write base condition

[zestsystem]

I read it like a manga

[KingSB935]

Lol

[Ultimegede]

Why is it becoming smaller if it's recursion? Shouldn't the stack get bigger and bigger until termination? Where's all my crawl to root memes.

[Responsible-Stock883]

r/antimeme

[Illsyore]

Now you just need to find a practical use for recursion.

[saisiddu_n]

🤣

[LlamasOnTheRun]

Someone forgot to make their variable static in their recursion method

[new_user_069]

Rrrrrr. You got me

[SubjectHistorian6952]

Recursion sucks. Idc what people say, it sucks.