rekursiivisesti
Rekursiivisesti is a Finnish adverb meaning “in a recursive manner.” It describes actions, definitions, or processes that are defined in terms of themselves, or that operate by applying the same rule to progressively smaller instances of the same problem. In mathematics, computer science, and related disciplines, rekursiivisesti is used to indicate that a computation is performed through recursion rather than by a single, non-recursive step.
Origin and usage: The word is formed from rekursiivinen (recursive) with the adverbial suffix -isesti. The concept
Examples: A standard example is the factorial function defined rekursiivisesti: 0! = 1 and for n > 0,
Advantages and caveats: Rekursiiviset approaches are often elegant and easy to reason about, but they may incur
See also: rekursio, rekursiivinen, recursion, programming languages.