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In this article, we study some new characterizations of primitive recursive functions based on restricted forms of primitive recursion, improving the pioneering work of R. M. Robinson and M. D.

At a job interview on Friday, I had to write code, and one of the things that came up when we were talking about implementation of a concept was recursion. The director of the group said to me "Don't ...

A recursive scheme for determination of the sum-of-divisors function is presented. As all of the formulas involve triangular numbers, the scheme is therefore compared for efficiency with another known ...

Michael Corballis suggests that recursion is central to being human (1 September, p 48). I can’t help extending the computing metaphor. When programming a recursive routine, you must add a ...

Roche and its Genentech subsidiary have committed up to $12 billion to Recursion in return for using its Recursion Operating System (OS) to advance therapies in 40 programs that include “key areas” of ...