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Recursion is an object or process that is defined in terms of itself. Mathematical patterns such as factorials and the Fibonacci series are recursive. Documents that can contain other documents, which themselves can contain other documents, are recursive. Fractal images and even certain biological processes are recursive in how they work.
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Craven, P.V. (2016). Recursion. In: Program Arcade Games. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1790-0_20
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