Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Recursion in Java gets a bad rap. Experienced developers shun the practice over fears that an ...

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Some languages, like PowerShell, have “anonymous recursive functions”. That is, normally, a function needs to use a name to refer to itself to recur. But “anonymous recursion” means the language has ...

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 ...