Monday, October 12, 2015

Primitive Recursive Functions

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3 comments:

beernuts said...

Not so primitive:

ack 0 n = n + 1
ack m 0 = ack (m-1) 1
ack m n = ack (m-1) (ack m (n-1))

Bwahahahahhahahaaa!!!

TomC said...

You can't fool me! That's a total computable function not a primitive recursive function. My son looked it up on Wikipedia!

beernuts said...

Gawd, raising yer son to be a philosopher! Come the revolution, this will be recognized as cruelty to children, and punished by making the perpetrator compute the Goedel numbers of simple, yet nontrivial proofs in arithmetic.