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Comment by tracerbulletx

2 hours ago

What makes it fractal?

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dvt  2 hours ago

It's kind of self-expanding/looping; fractal is just a cute name I like, but it's technically a directed cyclic graph (since you always have/want cycles).

  • mejutoco  2 hours ago

    I think recursive fits better, but I get it.

    • joshribakoff  15 minutes ago

      It’s more so the divide and conquer. Recursion vs iterative is tangential.

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