Some inventions operate in a recursive or iterative manner. This could be so of a machine that repeats actions or functions on a single article or to produce multiple articles, or operates on data.

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I have seen recursion code implode on itself on the JVM before. In this case, we caught the annoying stack overflow problem before it went into production and I had to work a good number of hours in ...

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.