For centuries, the Pythagorean Theorem has occupied a unique position in mathematics: both elementary and profound. Its ...

The F-35 fighter jets operated by the U.S. Air Force and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force are equipped with software coded in C++. This C++ code is written in accordance with a coding standard called ...

Recursion is a very useful programming skill. You may not use it very often in most languages, but the ability to think recursively is a valuable skill to acquire. There are programming languages (e.g ...

Given the importance of recursion in modern linguistics, there ought to be much to commend in Watumull et al.'s (2014) attempt to clarify what recursion is (or ought to be); I have trudged this very ...

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People usually talk about the race to the bottom in artificial intelligence as a bad thing. But it’s different when you’re discussing loss functions. Loss functions are a crucial but frequently ...

The Riemann hypothesis is the most important open question in number theory—if not all of mathematics. It has occupied experts for more than 160 years. And the problem appeared both in mathematician ...

Recursion is the process in which a function calls itself directly or indirectly. The corresponding function of recursion is called the recursive function. Some examples of recursion include DFS of ...

Say you’re at a party with nine other people and everyone shakes everyone else’s hand exactly once. How many handshakes take place? This is the “handshake problem,” and it’s one of my favorites. As a ...