A while ago, (well, a loooong time ago), I was bored and so I looked
up funny things you can do with Google. You know, like when you search
Google Gravity and hit "I'm Feeling Lucky". Or if you search "do a
barrel roll". One of my personal favourites is "askew". When I was
searching through the various tricks, I came across that if you typed
"recursion" into Google, it will say, "Did you mean:
recursion ?"
But it would be spelt the same way. At first (and up until now) I
thought Google had just made a mistake. But now that I'm studying for
computer science, in which I learned about recursion methods, I finally
understand what Google was doing.
re·cur·sion
/riˈkərZHən/
Noun
- The repeated application of a recursive procedure or definition.
- A recursive definition.
If that doesn't make sense, basically (at least in computer science), something that is recursive is something that calls itself. I would try and explain that using methods and other computer science stuff, but none of you are going to understand it, so I won't bother. Anyways, when Google says "Did you mean:
recursion ?", the word is a link to the word being Google searched. So when you type in recursion and click on the link from "Did you mean:
recursion ?", you get the same result: it called itself, therefore causing the Google search of recursion to be recursive itself.
Needless to say, I love Google.
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