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Re:Math/programming puzzle by andreyf on Friday July 02, 2010 @02:56AM (#1480445)
I have a feeling there is no closed-form equasion for a variable number of "levels" of such for loops. There should definitely be a recursive one, however. Would be interesting to define a new notation for such recursive forms.
Re:Math/programming puzzle by sublimeloge on Friday July 02, 2010 @11:35AM (#1481395)
I've always noted it as Sigma_loop, since it's basically the busy-beaver function for a programming language with no recursion and in which the bounds of every loop must stay fixed throughout the loop.
Re:Math/programming puzzle by fhars on Friday July 02, 2010 @10:33AM (#1481222)