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Good joke, but here's the real meaning
#REDIRECT [[recursiveness]]
'''Recursiveness''' is the quality of being defined in terms which include the whole. For example, in symbolic logic a well-formed formula (WFF) can be either:
#a predicate
#the negation of a WFF
#the combination of two WFF's with a binary operator
The LISP programming language uses a recursive data structure.
A fascination with recursive definitions in the software development community led to the invention of several recursive acronyms:
*[[PHP]] (originally Personal Home Page) => PHP Hypertext Pre-processor
*[[GNU]] => GNU's Not [[Unix]]
==See also==
*[[Fractal]]