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- (computing theory) Recursion to a fixed depth.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (computing theory) Recursion to a fixed depth.
- (computing theory) The operator
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- {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}\rho (g,h)(0,x_{1},\ldots ,x_{k})&=g(x_{1},\ldots ,x_{k})\\\rho (g,h)(y+1,x_{1},\ldots ,x_{k})&=h(y,\rho (g,h)(y,x_{1},\ldots ,x_{k}),x_{1},\ldots ,x_{k})\,\end{aligned}}}
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